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Whats the best advice or information I can use to study the RJ-45 plugs, colors and setting to make your own custom wire?

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hetty

OrangeWhite - Orange - GreenWhite - Blue - BlueWhite - Green - BrownWhite - Brown

Welcome to networking, if you can memorise that one line.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category_5_cable

dynamik

Here are some good guides:
http://www.lanshack.com/make-cat5E.aspx
http://www.lanshack.com/make_cat_6_cable.aspx

You can live dangerously and switch the green and orange pairs too.

It is more involved than simply having the same wire at the same position on each side. Electromagnetics and all that jazz

NetAdmin2436

If your actually making your own cables, running cable, or ever plan to....buy a cable tester and test every cable or cable run. Trust me, you will save yourself and others headaches. Local retailers like Home Depot have them as well.
http://www.lanshack.com/Economy-LAN-Tester-P2245C67.aspx

I remember spending 4 hours (bashing my head against the wall) troubleshooting intermittent internet connection at my boss's house, only to find out with a cable tester that the electrician who wired the house had pins 7 and 8 (brown/white and brown) flipped. I switched pins 7 and 8 to the correct position at the wall jack and the problem went away.

Tyrant1919

dynamik wrote:

Electromagnetics and all that jazz

Each color pair has a differing amount of twists per foot. Depending on their use. Such as PoE or a data signal.