Cabling issue at home

[BentleyMiller86]

Hi All,

 

I haven’t done much structured cabling so I am after some help, I live in a circa 1920’s house which has a solid brick wall construction so Wi-Fi is a major pain in the behind for me at the moment, I have a Netgear Nighthawk AP that I have installed roughly central to our living space, so it should cover all our bedrooms, dining room, living room and kitchen. I have a cable running from my main comm's area to upstairs both cables have a RJ45 face plate on (more info below) I followed the punch pattern on both plates (admittedly knowing this probably wouldn’t work) so I need to know where I have gone wrong, if you could please advise 😊

 

Cable route is:

 

Switch > RJ45 plate (downstairs) > RJ45 plate (upstairs) > Nighthawk AP

 

Both RJ45 plates are punched as follows

 

Pin

1 – Orange / White

2 – Orange

3 – Green / White

4 – Blue

5 – Blue / White

6 – Green

7 – Brown / White

8 – Brown

 

Cable tester shows my that all pins have successfully crimped, so I have done something wrong with the ordering of them!

 

Thanks 😊

 

Rob

[Steve21]

The order shouldn’t make a difference as long as they’re the same on both ends, but have you checked to see if both faceplates follow the same standard?

 

Like A/B wise? If one side is A and one B you could be crossing the cable

 

Steve

[BentleyMiller86]

Hi Steve,

 

Yes both faceplates follow the same standard A in this case I think? I will check tomorow that I have punched them correctly, been colour blind I do sometimes muck up my cables!

 

Thanks

 

Rob

[robyholmes]

Plug a laptop in to the faceplate upstairs to see if you get anything.

 

Might also be worth checking your patch cables at each end.

[BentleyMiller86]

Thanks Guys,

 

I have re punched the face plate downstairs and its now working. I should have more faith in myself

[ibpalle]

A long time ago I went over to help a friend who had issues putting RJ-45 cabling in his flat. He had the right tools and had done everything right except one thing. He had stripped the isolation of the wires before inserting wires into the RJ-45 plug and clamping them. Gave new meaning to the term "crosstalk" )