i. This document outlines a lab experiment on network cabling at Politeknik Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Shah. The objective is for students to learn how to make straight through and crossover cables using Cat5 cable and test them.
ii. It provides background theory on straight through cables, which are used to connect devices to switches and hubs, and crossover cables, which are used to directly connect like devices.
iii. The procedure has students cut and strip Cat5 cable, arrange the wire colors in the proper order based on whether they are making a straight through or crossover cable, crimp on RJ-45 connectors, and test the cables using a network cable tester.
i. This document outlines a lab experiment on network cabling at Politeknik Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Shah. The objective is for students to learn how to make straight through and crossover cables using Cat5 cable and test them.
ii. It provides background theory on straight through cables, which are used to connect devices to switches and hubs, and crossover cables, which are used to directly connect like devices.
iii. The procedure has students cut and strip Cat5 cable, arrange the wire colors in the proper order based on whether they are making a straight through or crossover cable, crimp on RJ-45 connectors, and test the cables using a network cable tester.
i. This document outlines a lab experiment on network cabling at Politeknik Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Shah. The objective is for students to learn how to make straight through and crossover cables using Cat5 cable and test them.
ii. It provides background theory on straight through cables, which are used to connect devices to switches and hubs, and crossover cables, which are used to directly connect like devices.
iii. The procedure has students cut and strip Cat5 cable, arrange the wire colors in the proper order based on whether they are making a straight through or crossover cable, crimp on RJ-45 connectors, and test the cables using a network cable tester.
i. This document outlines a lab experiment on network cabling at Politeknik Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Shah. The objective is for students to learn how to make straight through and crossover cables using Cat5 cable and test them.
ii. It provides background theory on straight through cables, which are used to connect devices to switches and hubs, and crossover cables, which are used to directly connect like devices.
iii. The procedure has students cut and strip Cat5 cable, arrange the wire colors in the proper order based on whether they are making a straight through or crossover cable, crimp on RJ-45 connectors, and test the cables using a network cable tester.
Straight-through cable is a type of twisted pair copper wire cable for local area network use for which the RJ-45 connectors at each end have the same pinout. Straight-through cable is also commonly referred to as patch cable. Straight-through cable is used to connect computers and other end-user devices (e.g., printers) to networking devices such as hubs and switches. It can also be used to directly connect like devices (e.g., two hubs or two switches) if the cable is plugged into an uplink port on one (but not both) of the devices. Crossover cable is used to connect two like devices without the use of an uplink port.
b) CROSS OVER CABLE
Ethernet crossover cable is a type of Ethernet cable used to connect computing devices together directly. Normal straight through or patch cables were used to connect from a host network interface controller (a computer or similar device) to a network switch, hub or router. A cable with connections that crossover was used to connect two devices of the same type, two hosts or two switches to each other.
PROCEDURE:
2 1. Cut 2 meter Cat 5 CABLE.
2. Strip 1 to 2 inches (2.5 to 5.1 cm) of the outer skin at the end of the cable wire by making a shallow cut in the skin with a utility knife. Run the knife around the cable, and the jacket should slide off easily. There will be 4 pairs of twisted wires exposed, each of them a different color or color combination:
a. Orange-white striped and solid orange
b. Green-white striped and solid green c. Blue-white striped and solid blue d. Brown-white striped and solid brown
3. Straighten the twisted wires using 2 pair of tweezers. Grasp a wire beneath a bend with 1 pair of tweezers, and use the other pair to gently straighten the bend. The straighter your wires, the easier your job will be.
4. Trim the untwisted wires to a suitable length by holding the RJ-45 connector next to the wires. The insulation on the cable should be just inside the bottom of the RJ-45 connector. The wires should be trimmed so that they line up evenly with the top of the RJ-45 connector.
5. Arrange wire based on colour code as shown below:
3 a) Straight through cable colour code arrangement
b) Cross over cable colour code arrangement
4 6. Trim all wires evenly. Leave about 1/2" of wires exposed
7. Insert the wires into the RJ-45 connector, make sure that they stay aligned and each color goes into its appropriate channel.
8. Crimp an RJ-45 connector to the opposite end of the cable using crimping tools
9. Testing cable connection using network cable tester. Put both end of the cable to the network cable tester and see the sequence led "ON".
DISCUSSION & CONCLUSION:
Do your discussion and conclusion based on experiment done by comparing the practical result and theory.
REFERENCE:
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