It's been a while since I had to do it, but when I had to, I made a tester to figure which wires were which. My tester is just a unit I put together with a 9 volt battery, a tone generator from Radio Shack, and 2 leads with alligator clips. I used alligator clips so I could put a pin in 1 to get in the grooves of the plug, and I wanted the tester for other stuff. At 09:33 AM 3/13/2004, you wrote: >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >Hash: SHA1 > >Hi all. >Has anyone found a solution for crimping the ends on ethernet cables >without being able to see what color the wires are? I would like to be >able to make these network cables since I often need small 6-ft wires >and don't feel like going to the store everythime I need one.
