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Making Cat5/6 LAN Cables April 22, 2008

When making small cables from a reel/ longer cable, following these steps will tell you which plug is bad when a lead doesn’t work.
The only time there’ll be the possibility of 2 bad plugs is in the first step, once that’s sorted the bad plug will be obvious:

1. get it working with a plug either end of the whole length first
2. mark both of the working plugs
3. cut the desired length off
4. put plug on new ends
5. test both the reel and the short cable
6. if either don’t work you know it’s the unmarked plug that’s to blame
7. put a plug onto the now plugless end of the reel
8. test & replace unmarked plug if bad
9. repeat from step 2 for subsequent cables