How To: Terminating a Field Term Plug Onto Cat6A Direct Burial Unshielded Ethernet
Feb 08, 2024

How To: Terminating a Field Term Plug Onto Cat6A Direct Burial Unshielded Ethernet

When terminating Cat6A Ethernet cable of any kind, including Cat6A direct burial unshielded Ethernet cable, it is good to have...
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All About Ethernet Couplers: What They Are, How They Work, and How to Use Them
Nov 30, 2023

All About Ethernet Couplers: What They Are, How They Work, and How to Use Them

Learn about Ethernet couplers and how they can be a useful solution for joining two segments of an Ethernet channel....
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How to: Terminate a Cat6A Shielded Field Term Plug
Mar 16, 2023

How to: Terminate a Cat6A Shielded Field Term Plug

Is it a RJ45 connector plug or a tool-less keystone jack? We have a potential personality disorder going on here!...
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Advanced Residential and Small Business Physical Ethernet LAN Setup
Dec 15, 2022

Advanced Residential and Small Business Physical Ethernet LAN Setup

I have written much about the individual phases of working with Ethernet cable, such as how to terminate a keystone...
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Low-Voltage Q&A With Don and Dave
Sep 30, 2022

Low-Voltage Q&A With Don and Dave

We often get asked questions through email, live chat, social media, and over the phone. A lot of times these...
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How To:  Reterminate an IDC Connector
Aug 18, 2022

How To: Reterminate an IDC Connector

Sometimes when you terminate an Ethernet cable, the termination just doesn’t turn out right. Maybe it fails a test, or...
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Terminating Cat6A Shielded Direct Burial Ethernet for Performance
Jul 28, 2022

Terminating Cat6A Shielded Direct Burial Ethernet for Performance

4K HDBASE-T and 10G Internet over coaxial is here, and you should be ready for it! Up until now, our...
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Terminating Pass-Through RJ45 Connectors onto Solid Copper Ethernet Cable  --  A Really Bad Idea?
May 26, 2022

Terminating Pass-Through RJ45 Connectors onto Solid Copper Ethernet Cable -- A Really Bad Idea?

A question that keeps coming up is “Do pass-through RJ45 connector plugs not work as well as the standard solid...
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How To: Open Cat6A Shielded and Unshielded Field Term Plugs
Apr 21, 2022

How To: Open Cat6A Shielded and Unshielded Field Term Plugs

trueCABLE sells two great pieces of Ethernet cable termination hardware that makes putting male ends onto your cable runs easy...
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