Here's a website about making LAN cables.

[dave.king1]

Out of desperation I've made more than my fair share of Cat5 over the years when I've been in the middle of a cutover/upgrade and find the cablers have forgotten something, personally I'd rather spend the few cents extra to buy from Jaycar etc ( obviously not something you can do at 2am on a Sunday )

Decent tools from the likes of Krone cost a bomb and not value for money unless you are doing it for a living and the cheaper ones are not as reliable, ya gets what ya pays for.

Cat6 is a different story, buy every time

[DrNomis_44]

Out of desperation I've made more than my fair share of Cat5 over the years when I've been in the middle of a cutover/upgrade and find the cablers have forgotten something, personally I'd rather spend the few cents extra to buy from Jaycar etc ( obviously not something you can do at 2am on a Sunday )

Decent tools from the likes of Krone cost a bomb and not value for money unless you are doing it for a living and the cheaper ones are not as reliable, ya gets what ya pays for.

Cat6 is a different story, buy every time

That's true, I was pretty lucky to be given a LAN Tester/Toolkit for nothing at the last place I worked, the tools were pretty good quality, I even got a decent crimping tool as well as a Tester and Terminator with it as well as some RJ45 connectors and rubber boots to go on them, all I needed was some Cat.5 or 6 cable and some easy to follow instructions on how to make LAN cables, and I was in business, I was using a LAN cable I had made from a length of Cat.5 cable but ended up having to replace it with a new Cat.6 cable after the Cat.5 cable got chewed up by one of my cats, anyway, I talked to someone who recommended using some Cat.6 cable, my understanding is that Cat.6 cable can handle faster Data Transfer speeds than Cat.5., the brand of my LAN Tester/Toolkit is Pro'sKit, well that's what's written on the case anyway.


So my home Network for my NBN Internet for my computers and game machines is all Cat.6 cabling, except for the games machines cause they're on WiFi.