Recent content by Dave_uk

Sorted now. Turned out I had the plugs wired the wrong way round (white/orange on pin 8 not pin 1). I just got confused staring at it repeatedly and convincing myself it was the right way around. It would have have been nice if the tester had shown 1-8 on one side and 8-1 on the other rather...

Slightly wrong. The test plug shorted each pair, but they were isolated from each other. So at the test end, I get 0 ohms between, say orange & white/orange, and open circuit on everything else.

Agreed. This is good, if quite old, cable and the colours are bright. This is just ethernet and yes, in a pinch I could re-use the blue and brown pairs if there is a fault on the orange-green ones. I am trying to avoid having to re-run the cable because of the lack of access to the cable...

Without the test lead there is no continuity across any of the wires. Yes, I checked that the sockets are both the right way round. I was hoping to avoid re-running the wires because access is difficult - much squirming is involved.

I have installed a new Cat5e cable (about 10m) between my network hub and a new office outlet. The cable does not light up with my cable tester (with new battery). I made a test lead with all pairs shorted out to plug into the wall socket and a second socket (to accept the new RJ45) wired to a...