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Hello there, hoping for some help with this problem in my first post on this forum.
A while back I hard-wired part of my house for Internet and crimped my plugs/wired wall-sockets with no great problem. Now that I have tried to install another circuit, I am having significant signal failures and on researching a little (more than initially ) I find that it can be important whether you are using solid or stranded cable.Mine is stranded and when I was looking to purchase it, was only concerned about shielding/twisting as I didn't know about the solid/stranded issue when connecting.
I also don't know if my connectors are for solid or stranded cable as it isn't mentioned on the packet and I can't use a tip I found on the Net about looking at the shape of the pins, because the connectors have metal side-pieces, so cannot check that way. Any other possibilities ?
My questions are therefore:
1) Is it possible to say if the fault is more likely - from the technology used -to be at the connector or wall-socket end ?
2)I have tried simple "solutions" such as recrimping the connector and ensuring that the wires are fully punched down in the wall-socket - any other suggestions ?
Thank you.
A while back I hard-wired part of my house for Internet and crimped my plugs/wired wall-sockets with no great problem. Now that I have tried to install another circuit, I am having significant signal failures and on researching a little (more than initially ) I find that it can be important whether you are using solid or stranded cable.Mine is stranded and when I was looking to purchase it, was only concerned about shielding/twisting as I didn't know about the solid/stranded issue when connecting.
I also don't know if my connectors are for solid or stranded cable as it isn't mentioned on the packet and I can't use a tip I found on the Net about looking at the shape of the pins, because the connectors have metal side-pieces, so cannot check that way. Any other possibilities ?
My questions are therefore:
1) Is it possible to say if the fault is more likely - from the technology used -to be at the connector or wall-socket end ?
2)I have tried simple "solutions" such as recrimping the connector and ensuring that the wires are fully punched down in the wall-socket - any other suggestions ?
Thank you.