How To Make A 100 Ft Cat 5 Patch Cable
Before we get started with making a 100 ft cat 5 patch cable for your network you will need to know what a network is and what a cat 5 cable is. Cat 5 patch cables are the most commonly used cables today. In this article we are going to explain where they are used and how you can make your own 100 ft cat 5 patch cable so that you can connect to you network and have some browsing fun online.
To start off with, you have to know that there are many different types of network cabling, as said before; cat 5 is the most commonly use, but you also get cat 6. For those of you who do not already know the cat in Cat 5 and Cat 6 means category.
Since the start of the internet engineers have been trying to lower the noise of the data transfer online. You should know that the ADSL, network or internet line that you use in your home or office is the same line that you use to make calls. This line is called a network or ADSL line. This is a very noisy line in general, which is why you will find that you need to make use of cat 5 patch cables. However, you will find that these cables are not enough to lower the noise on lines that use heavy data transfers, which is why telephone companies recommend that you make use of an added pot or filter to lower the noise to a more accepted level.
Without the filter, more commonly called the ADSL filter, you will find that the noise on your telephone line will be too great to make a telephone call, so your line will be rendered useless without it, accept of course for surfing the net, but that does not mean that you cannot make VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) calls using your 100 ft cat 5 patch cable.
Now, what you need to know is that the cat 5 is a cable that consists of many different pairs of twisted coupled cables. This is a integrity signal cable which, most of the time, does not come shielded. This is because the design of the cable itself is made to lower noise levels. The cat 5 wiring is very unique in the sense that is made up of 8 different wires that are coupled and twisted around each other to create a type of coil.
It is this coiling it twisting effect that lowers the noise on a line and is more commonly known to reduce what is called “crosstalk” between the wires, thus reducing noise levels.
Making a 100 ft cat 5 patch cable is easy and you do not need to be an expert at it, as long as you have a wiring diagram. All you need is you 100 ft piece of cat 5 cable and a RJ-45 type jack. You will want to make sure that it is an RJ-45, as this is the most commonly used connection these days.
