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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: tidla on 13 February 2013, 18:42:54
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Kids are whinging that the wireless to the xbox is rubbish, cable is also faster.
Are there different quality of cable, if so what am i looking for?
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As seXBOX is 100Mbps only anyway, CAT5. CAT5e is better, but you wouldn't notice in this scenarion.
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not sure about quality but know you can get them any length on ebay quite cheap tis how i wired my home system
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not sure about quality but know you can get them any length on ebay quite cheap tis how i wired my home system
The failure rate of the preassembled ones is shocking. Our bean counters thought it would be cheaper to buy pre assembled cables, rather than get our cable monkeys to make as required. They now see they were wrong.
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Yes , seen them. Tool for crimping the end about £25
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Thanks Jamie filled with confiedence now :'( :'( :'( ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D wont all be finished for quite some time yet and now a good chance it wont bloody work :o :o :y :y
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And you missed the fun of getting 8 tiny wires into the plug in the right order before crimping them Mr Lovelength.
Get one of those cheap cable testers from the bay of e. At least you have a chance of diagnosing a cable fault then.
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Kids are whinging that the wireless to the xbox is rubbish, cable is also faster.
Are there different quality of cable, if so what am i looking for?
is it through wireless adapter? I only ask cause I had the same problem with mine and got a longer USB cable to move the adapter closer. also I changed the settings on the router but I can't remember which setting it was. hope this helps
sorry it was upnp setting
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And you missed the fun of getting 8 tiny wires into the plug in the right order before crimping them Mr Lovelength.
Get one of those cheap cable testers from the bay of e. At least you have a chance of diagnosing a cable fault then.
no i thought i would be a smart arse and brought preassembled cables then ran tham to the main wiring cupboard and cut the other end and wired them into an outlet..........not tried the crimping bit yet but i got the tool....looks the part. About 20 cables ran throughout the house carefully routed to avoid power etc only to be told by our leader they are shite :-[ :-[
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Yes , seen them. Tool for crimping the end about £25
Last time I bought a crimping tool and tester from a UK company on Ebay for about that. They are both reasonable quality.
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And you missed the fun of getting 8 tiny wires into the plug in the right order before crimping them Mr Lovelength.
Get one of those cheap cable testers from the bay of e. At least you have a chance of diagnosing a cable fault then.
no i thought i would be a smart arse and brought preassembled cables then ran tham to the main wiring cupboard and cut the other end and wired them into an outlet..........not tried the crimping bit yet but i got the tool....looks the part. About 20 cables ran throughout the house carefully routed to avoid power etc only to be told by our leader they are shite :-[ :-[
Where they are twisted pair cables, mains noise should have no affect. More important is to avoid tight bends, this should be a minimum of 25mm, which is why the corners for network trunking are curved.
I've never had any problems with pre-made cables from out local network equipment wholesaler, but when running cables I always make then bespoke.
Crimping Cat 5 plugs is a bit like the Omega Engine B-bolt, but with a bit of practice 95 out of 100 will be right first time. Most common mistake is one of the wires being slightly short in the connector so you have an open circuit. :(
A tester makes it easy to check both ends are correct.
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I have a man who does such things for me.
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i should have given you a length to make some cables up :o :o that reads so bad :-* :-*
got mine off ebay so chances are Jamies right and they will be shite, better get myself a tester me thinks :-[ :-[ oh and 25mm bends definatley looking for a tester ::) ::)
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I have a man who does such things for me.
you have lots of men that do things for you :o :o
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I'd offer to make some up, but the only reel of cat5e I have here is purple ;D. I'm quite sure that OOFers don't want to be a gay as me ;D
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I have a man who does such things for me.
you have lots of men that do things for you :o :o
Yes. I do.
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I have a man who does such things for me.
I have a women who used to do such things for me....... :D :D :( :'(
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I'd offer to make some up, but the only reel of cat5e I have here is purple ;D. I'm quite sure that OOFers don't want to be a gay as me ;D
Low smoke then? :y
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Just installed 40m in three lengths, £14 all in incuding 10 terminals and the tool to fit the wires. Easy enough as long as you have got your glasses on.
So even if your buried deep in the wall cable terminals fail its easy enough to fix.
Tested with a multmetre to reduce any issues.
thanks for the help :y
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Don't bury in walls, run behind capping. Also, only run black outside.