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RJ45 connectors

OldGeezer

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Hi all
Am using patch cable from router to laptop for best fibre speed.
Thing is the plastic bit of the connector which helps to lock it into place has snapped off.
Have heard about RJ45 clips but they are expensive if you can find them and have t be bought in like 50 at a time.
Alternative is to put a new connector on the cable myself with a RJ45 Crimping Tool and some pass through connectors to make the task easy.
Can anyone recommend to me which crimping tool to get and where from?
Thanks
 
I've had them work fine without the clip, if you don't touch them. I'd replace it when you get the chance still, (Though never with the crap flat cables, they are utterly useless!).
 
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If you're crimping your own connectors, you'll need to buy the right kind of cable too (solid core). Trying to crimp a connector onto a factory-made cable may not work at all, or worse, may give an intermittently unreliable connection.

I concur with the suggestion just to buy a new cable. fs.com sell them at ludicrously cheap prices, although there is £12 postage to pay for orders under £79. It's a good opportunity to buy spares though :)
 
If you're crimping your own connectors, you'll need to buy the right kind of cable too (solid core). Trying to crimp a connector onto a factory-made cable may not work at all, or worse, may give an intermittently unreliable connection.

I concur with the suggestion just to buy a new cable. fs.com sell them at ludicrously cheap prices, although there is £12 postage to pay for orders under £79. It's a good opportunity to buy spares though :)
I intend to cut the connector off and start from scratch. Plenty of vids on youtube, should be easy-peasy.
 
Stick it in and squash a ball of blu-tack onto one side. done this loads of times with connectors with broken clips, an inexpensive hack that works great.
 
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Although I've done plenty of cable crimping in my time it's hard to get right, and life's too short really.

Buy new factory-made ones from fs.com - although they're not as cheap as they used to be. If you're visiting the USA, use monoprice.com (not monoprice.uk which is a rip-off)
 
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I didn't notice the advertising link, in small letters, in the bottom of the posting - possibly because it was added later in an edit. Damn.
 
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