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Episode: 2406
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Title: HPR2406: Putting Ends onto CAT6 Ethernet Cables
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Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr2406/hpr2406.mp3
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Transcribed: 2025-10-19 02:24:34
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This in HPR episode 2,406 entitled, Putting End Onto C866 on its cables.
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It is hosted by Shane Shenan and in about 8 minutes long, and Karimah Cleenflag.
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The summary is, This one might experience learning how to put the end Onto C866 cable.
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Hello hacker public radio audience.
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This is Shane Shenan and I live near Niagara Falls in Ontario.
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And I'm here to share with you a stressful but rewarding experience that I had recently.
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I had to learn how to put the ends onto some Catch 6 Ethernet cable.
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So here's how it happened.
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One of the passers up my church asked me about help with their video project.
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I already work in the video booth some Sundays and I'm the guy that puts the lyrics and the slides up on the projection screens.
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But what they wanted to help with was to make sure that when the next baptism happened,
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that there was a good strong video feed coming from the video camera next to the baptismal tank.
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In the past, we were displayed the baptism up on the big screens by using an iPhone app.
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An iPhone pointed at the baptismal tank.
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And then I guess it would send the signal through the internet to our video booth in the back of the church.
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Anyway, it wasn't ideal.
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It's a lag, kind of a stuttery feed, not the best.
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So now they were going to do it properly and they already had some Catch 6 cable going under the floor of the sanctuary.
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The last time they renovated the church, they thought to put a lot of extra cables in there.
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So we already had two Catch 6 cables under the sanctuary floor, but they didn't have ends.
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So it was going to be my job to put ends on them and I didn't know how.
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So I ranged with the pastor that I would show up on a wasting night when there would be a worship team in there having practice.
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I didn't have a key, so they would let me in and they would lock up when they left.
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So that meant I had about an hour to half to get this thing figured out.
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When I got there, though, the pastor I talked to had laid out all the equipment, the video camera and all these other things.
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And it would be my job to connect everything that was needed.
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But the most important part, the first task I had to do was to put these ends on the cables.
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So that day I had looked up a diagram of what the cable wire should look like.
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I'm going to put a link to the picture that I used in the show notes.
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So I figured out that I had to use straight through wiring.
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I forget what the other kind is, but I figured it would be a straight through.
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And so I find this diagram called straight through wiring, EIA slash TIA, 568B.
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The article that I read said that this was the most common method these days.
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And I figured it would be a straight through project since we were taking the feed directly from the video camera.
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And you know, it had to go where it had to go.
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I figured it wouldn't be more complex than that.
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So I had borrowed some tools from a friend.
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I had a crimper tool and I had a bag of ends that would go into the cables.
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And the crimper tool also had the cutter for stripping the sheath, the blue sheath off the cat's six cable.
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So I began.
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I fed the blue cable end, or sorry, the blue cable,
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through the part of the crimper tool that would strip the sheath off the cable.
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And I twisted around like I'd seen in a YouTube video.
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And then I pulled that sheath off and I saw the eight wires that I was going to be using.
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And then I started, you know, pushing those eight wires in the right order into the plastic end.
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But when I stripped the blue sheath off the cable,
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I had bit too deep.
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And some of one of those eight little cables,
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one of those eight little wires, I'd bitten into it.
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So it broke off.
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Then I was just left with seven of those wires.
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That wouldn't do.
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So I cut them off, started again.
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I fed the cat five cat's six cable I mean into the into the stripper part of the tool,
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rotated the tool like I'd seen on YouTube,
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pulled the sheath off it and revealed those eight wires again.
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Guess what?
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Once again, I had held the tool to tightly and had bitten to one of those eight wires.
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Started again.
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I tried for a third time, fourth time, fifth time.
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And the room I'm working in is not quiet.
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I'm working in the sanctuary of the church and the worship team is there,
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practicing for the upcoming Sunday service.
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So it's great music, nice and loud.
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It's loud as I like it, but a little bit distracting when I'm trying to learn for the first time.
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How to use this crimper tool to strip the wires off the cat's six cable.
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It took me 90 minutes.
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After an hour and a half, I had successfully put two ends onto the cables.
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And I just had two more to do because we're using two cables and we needed four ends.
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So at least during that hour and a half,
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I learned how to hold the tool and how to strip the case enough, the cable,
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in such a way that it wouldn't cut through into the eight different wires.
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And I learned how to push those wires into the end and how to crimp it.
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Now the first time I tried to crimp it.
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I put the end, the plastic end, in backwards into the crimp and crimp and tool.
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And then I couldn't get a doubt.
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And I had to physically break the plastic end off inside the crimper,
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before I could remove it.
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So lots of trial and error.
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This is why one of my favorite phrases is time and space.
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Time and space.
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When you're trying to learn to do something, give yourself more time than you think you'll need
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and give yourself a quiet space to do it.
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Anyway, it was a learning experience.
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And I think that if I had to put some ends onto some cat's six cable now,
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I think it wouldn't take me longer than 30 minutes.
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No, I'm kidding.
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It'll probably just take me four or five minutes.
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So that's my learning experience.
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I bet some of you guys and gals put ends on the cat's six cables all day,
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and you've been doing it for years.
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But that was my first experience, and I thought I'd share it with the community.
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Okay, thanks for listening.
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Goodbye.
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