I too only do an RJ45 here and there, mostly for repairs or quick temp field installs. I have the Platinum EZ-RJ45 which does the same thing. People bash it, but for my purposes it works great.
From what I’ve read and and based in my own experience (30 years in IT) field-made male terminations account for 70% of all network faults. I swore off them 20 years ago. I will use them but only is very rare situations. Every time I find one I replace it with a female termination and factory made stranded patch cable or just the patch cable. Needless to say, physical faults are extremely rare on my networks. Having said that, I appreciate innovative tools like this one.
I've been using a Platinum Tools EZ45 crimper for many years. Twenty-five years ago when I had better eye sight and dexterity. I could crimp the original way. Now days my hands will cramp. I've made all the cables in my house and for many friends.
I just made the switch for exactly the reason he stated. I terminate cables so infrequently, the difference in price is irrelevant to me. The only thing that held me back was the price of buying a new crimping tool. I've had my original crimping tool for twenty years and it still works perfectly fine.
Another great video Tom! I tried crimping my own cables a few years ago and became frustrated because I kept getting errors. Recently I came across these pass through RJ45 connectors and life is so much easier now. I also picked up the Klein Tools LAN Scout Jr. to check my crimps. I'm getting a lot of satisfaction now that I'm running Cat5e and Cat6 cable and can check each cable is working like it should.
Even your product plugs are on topic and helpful unlike many channels that plug things completely unrelated to the content. Although it’s a spendy tool and the feed thru plugs are about 6 times the price of the usual RJ45’s
I use a Klein and it is a lifesaver it has the benefit of being able to confirm the order without a magnifying glass or squinting before you crimp, if it somehow is wrong you simply remove connector and do over. They are the future.
They only eliminate the easiest and fastest step in crimping cat... Trimming. Give me a tool that unwinds and straightens the pairs, and I'll pay GOOD money for it.
Saw someone using one of these some time ago. The time they took to make 1 end, I did 2 with the normal crimper. It takes too much time to insert the wires into the jack. Also I use a cable cutter to trimm the cable at just the right length, so it's really easy to make cables.
Fantastic, professionals use these on a daily basis I do industrial CCTV and these have been more reliable then your standard at least when it’s raining you can see the colours poking out the end of the connector Highly recommend the klein one
I purchased the Ideal FT-45 several months ago when I needed to terminate outdoor shielded Ethernet cable (Ubiquiti TOUGHCableCARRIER) for a Point to Multipoint radio link. The Ideal 85-368 Shielded CAT6A/6/5e feed-thru modular plugs made it easy to slide the wires and the jacket into the plug for proper termination. Terminating Ubiquiti TOUGHCableCARRIER with was much harder so I do not expect to use the 94 Ubiquiti TC-CON shielded plugs that I have left.
@@sNsReal The RJ-45 jacks in the Ubiquiti NanoStation M5 and Rocket 5AC Prisim that make up the Point to Multi-point radio link shield the connector from the weather.
Tried it, used 500' new CAT5e and Ideal connectors. With correct colors, I still have 1-2 dead connections each time. Maybe the crimp isn't tight enough, though there is no daylight between the handle. Going try and find some other method, since this is likely the best crimper for the dozen I crimp every decade.
I like the monoprice 2 piece Cat6 ends. They have a little comb like thing that you push the wires through and then trim flush and then the cable jacket goes into the end quite nicely. You use any standard crimp tool with them. That said it is still a little finicky but at least you don't have to guess the length.
I do I.T. as well as Network Infrastructure installation. Between Jacking and crimping mod clips, the mod clips are more tedious because of exposed wire as shown here. It can really mess up an operation if a network engineer bends that cord around or plugs it in and out a lot for whatever reason. Once you do them a good 50-150 times, you can do them pretty much as fast as a RUclips video getting demonetized. EDIT: I totally have one of these cables plugged into one of my older home lab servers lol. Fixing it now
You should check out Belden Revconnects the we used all high voltage rated cables. They have both shielded ends and non-shielded. The Revconnects for me make it easier.
great tip! im like you, can do them but hopeless at them, defiantly going to invest in one of these kits, the rj45 connectors arnt that expensive when you buy bulk form china
I have that crimper and like it a lot. But I very much dislike ez-crimp connectors. Especially at the beach here, the salt air will corrode and short them because the untreated copper ends are exposed. Connector pins are gold plated, and have a separator to resist corrosion. Yet the tip of an ez-crimp exposes copper wires with thin jackets right beside each other. Ez-crimps sometimes leaves the wires too long and it causes the connector locking tap not to snap into place when plugging it in. Causing the cable to to fall out the port later. I flipped the blade around on mine and now I can use it with regular non-ezcrimp connectors. It's a very nice crimper and doesn't have to strictly be used with ez-crimps.
They are not overly expensive compared to the other connectors anyhow. The tool is reasonably priced too. If you have a lot of cables to be terminated get one. It will even work with the regular ends but you won't get the pass through with them.
For easy of use I like these connectors a lot. But big warming - the RJ45 won't fully seat into some devices due to the little bit of each pair hanging past the edge of the RJ45. Just an FYI. Not a big deal for one-offs where you can test but can't suggest for large applications.
had this problem when installing IP cams, i found that passing thru the connector pull tight so the jacket seats fully in the RJ, cutting off excess wire with snips or cutters, put into your termination tool of choice, pull back the wires protruding out of the RJ just enought for a flush termination and crimp. defeats the purpose of the cutters on the crimp tool but i found this to be a fool proof clean termination method.
Wow! that is a challenge. Especially considering how difficult it came be on the white wires with the very thin color band is sometimes difficult some that can see full color.
I've got the Klein tools version of this and once the blade wore out just a little it became a major problem for me. Had to redo many ends that tested OK but wouldn't deploy properly in a POE environment.
This doesn't eliminate any of the steps of crimping that actually suck. You still have to strip, untwist, straighten, sort, line up, and insert. You only get to skip the easiest step... trimming to length.
I've seen a lot of noise on the IT Professionals facebook group regarding the ez-plugs and potential shorts in PoE equipment. Do you have any viewpoints on that?
Yes, don't crimp ends that are plugged in. POE has safety against shorts and anytime you cut a POE wire that is live, even to trim it, you could create a short.
I liked the idea of this but for some reason 1 and 8 didn't get a good connection. I have to stick with the old way. at times I need to be fast and it needs to work the first time.
A lot of companies tell you not to use this type of crimper for Poe ports. Apparently there is a possibility for creating a short and burning the port or device.
@@leeb5107 Now, be fair. While it's ridiculous to believe that there's any danger, it's perfectly relevant to comment that some people have this ridiculous belief. Sometimes the people on the other side of a contract believe ridiculous things and you have to either persuade or accommodate them.
I'm not sure about Poe but if you're dealing with cameras this is true. You will short it out if you cut all the cables at the same time. I don't see why this would be any different. I did it by accident on one of my cameras. Not with this tool but yeah things shorted. I also worked with some guys who installed cabling and cameras and they also warned me about it too. So yeah make sure the other side is not plugged in before cutting it if it's something to do with cameras. I haven't had the same issue with network cables though. Meaning those connected to computers.
@@myshots101 I made a similar mistake stripping wires as a kid, only I was using my teeth to strip wires in a live phone cable. I don't like the taste of dial tone. Good thing the phone didn't ring or I'd have been in much bigger trouble.
I simply do not crimp Ethernet cables anymore. Slow and not as good as bought cables. I simply buy cables from 6in to 100ft as I need. Already tested and certified. Next!
The market is very broad and there are a lot of different disciplines. My staff that does cable installs has a different skill set than my staff that does firewall configs.
I shouldn't have said it like that. You obviously made the one cable up purposefully bad to show the effectiveness of a pass through. When doing many terminations it is the way to go to make sure they're all seated and in the correct order. Love your videos. Every time I see one I think I wish this guy was in my area so I could work for him haha.
I too only do an RJ45 here and there, mostly for repairs or quick temp field installs. I have the Platinum EZ-RJ45 which does the same thing. People bash it, but for my purposes it works great.
From what I’ve read and and based in my own experience (30 years in IT) field-made male terminations account for 70% of all network faults. I swore off them 20 years ago. I will use them but only is very rare situations. Every time I find one I replace it with a female termination and factory made stranded patch cable or just the patch cable. Needless to say, physical faults are extremely rare on my networks. Having said that, I appreciate innovative tools like this one.
SOOO true
Especially with shielded cables. Cat5e is just not acceptable anymore
It's been over a decade since I did my last rj45, this is going to be a life saver. I'm sold.
I've been using a Platinum Tools EZ45 crimper for many years. Twenty-five years ago when I had better eye sight and dexterity. I could crimp the original way. Now days my hands will cramp.
I've made all the cables in my house and for many friends.
I just made the switch for exactly the reason he stated. I terminate cables so infrequently, the difference in price is irrelevant to me. The only thing that held me back was the price of buying a new crimping tool. I've had my original crimping tool for twenty years and it still works perfectly fine.
FIRST TOOL I BOUGHT when doing some cable runs in my home.... Thanks TOM
The Klein Tools version of this has the colored diagram and can do RJ11 jacks as well
Another great video Tom! I tried crimping my own cables a few years ago and became frustrated because I kept getting errors. Recently I came across these pass through RJ45 connectors and life is so much easier now. I also picked up the Klein Tools LAN Scout Jr. to check my crimps. I'm getting a lot of satisfaction now that I'm running Cat5e and Cat6 cable and can check each cable is working like it should.
Even your product plugs are on topic and helpful unlike many channels that plug things completely unrelated to the content. Although it’s a spendy tool and the feed thru plugs are about 6 times the price of the usual RJ45’s
For the casual times when you just need a couple of cables done.
I use a Klein and it is a lifesaver it has the benefit of being able to confirm the order without a magnifying glass or squinting before you crimp, if it somehow is wrong you simply remove connector and do over. They are the future.
YES, i hate doing this it's annoying.
these pass through rj45 are amazing!
They only eliminate the easiest and fastest step in crimping cat... Trimming. Give me a tool that unwinds and straightens the pairs, and I'll pay GOOD money for it.
@@lastdeadmouse7 lol, you can't win both ways
i have been a Network Administrator for over 20 Years
we use the Klein VDV226-110
Saw someone using one of these some time ago. The time they took to make 1 end, I did 2 with the normal crimper. It takes too much time to insert the wires into the jack. Also I use a cable cutter to trimm the cable at just the right length, so it's really easy to make cables.
Thanks Tom! Gotta get me one of those and throw it into my tool kit.
Fantastic, professionals use these on a daily basis I do industrial CCTV and these have been more reliable then your standard at least when it’s raining you can see the colours poking out the end of the connector
Highly recommend the klein one
I purchased the Ideal FT-45 several months ago when I needed to terminate outdoor shielded Ethernet cable (Ubiquiti TOUGHCableCARRIER) for a Point to Multipoint radio link. The Ideal 85-368 Shielded CAT6A/6/5e feed-thru modular plugs made it easy to slide the wires and the jacket into the plug for proper termination. Terminating Ubiquiti TOUGHCableCARRIER with was much harder so I do not expect to use the 94 Ubiquiti TC-CON shielded plugs that I have left.
Outdoor installation using that kind of open connector... Hmm, I dont think it is a good idea
@@sNsReal The RJ-45 jacks in the Ubiquiti NanoStation M5 and Rocket 5AC Prisim that make up the Point to Multi-point radio link shield the connector from the weather.
That opening intro silence was just long enough to be a little unsettling lmao
very nice tip and demo!
Tried it, used 500' new CAT5e and Ideal connectors. With correct colors, I still have 1-2 dead connections each time. Maybe the crimp isn't tight enough, though there is no daylight between the handle. Going try and find some other method, since this is likely the best crimper for the dozen I crimp every decade.
That pink bow tie looks cute.
I like the monoprice 2 piece Cat6 ends. They have a little comb like thing that you push the wires through and then trim flush and then the cable jacket goes into the end quite nicely. You use any standard crimp tool with them. That said it is still a little finicky but at least you don't have to guess the length.
I bought one of those too. They make terminating RJ45 cable 10 times easier
I'd like to see the Tom v Cory crimp competition
I would sadly lose even with that tool
I do I.T. as well as Network Infrastructure installation. Between Jacking and crimping mod clips, the mod clips are more tedious because of exposed wire as shown here. It can really mess up an operation if a network engineer bends that cord around or plugs it in and out a lot for whatever reason. Once you do them a good 50-150 times, you can do them pretty much as fast as a RUclips video getting demonetized. EDIT: I totally have one of these cables plugged into one of my older home lab servers lol. Fixing it now
Crimping a good connector only depends on how much you practice.
Dont give up!
I’ve had these bottom out and cause shorts in certain POE switches
I've been using the Klien tools version for years
You should check out Belden Revconnects the we used all high voltage rated cables. They have both shielded ends and non-shielded. The Revconnects for me make it easier.
great tip! im like you, can do them but hopeless at them, defiantly going to invest in one of these kits, the rj45 connectors arnt that expensive when you buy bulk form china
I have that crimper and like it a lot. But I very much dislike ez-crimp connectors.
Especially at the beach here, the salt air will corrode and short them because the untreated copper ends are exposed. Connector pins are gold plated, and have a separator to resist corrosion. Yet the tip of an ez-crimp exposes copper wires with thin jackets right beside each other.
Ez-crimps sometimes leaves the wires too long and it causes the connector locking tap not to snap into place when plugging it in. Causing the cable to to fall out the port later.
I flipped the blade around on mine and now I can use it with regular non-ezcrimp connectors. It's a very nice crimper and doesn't have to strictly be used with ez-crimps.
WOW, that's an amazing tool. Thank you. Can it do RJ48 as well?
They are not overly expensive compared to the other connectors anyhow. The tool is reasonably priced too. If you have a lot of cables to be terminated get one. It will even work with the regular ends but you won't get the pass through with them.
Will there be any problem if you use this method on POE devices? The end of the cable in the RJ45 are now exposed, unlike using a normal RJ45🤔
For easy of use I like these connectors a lot.
But big warming - the RJ45 won't fully seat into some devices due to the little bit of each pair hanging past the edge of the RJ45.
Just an FYI. Not a big deal for one-offs where you can test but can't suggest for large applications.
had this problem when installing IP cams, i found that passing thru the connector pull tight so the jacket seats fully in the RJ, cutting off excess wire with snips or cutters, put into your termination tool of choice, pull back the wires protruding out of the RJ just enought for a flush termination and crimp. defeats the purpose of the cutters on the crimp tool but i found this to be a fool proof clean termination method.
Making the length right isnt that big a problem for me, I dont think I have made one wrong yet. A bigger problem is, I am color blind. xD
Wow! that is a challenge. Especially considering how difficult it came be on the white wires with the very thin color band is sometimes difficult some that can see full color.
Same. Hate resistor codes and such too.
Emmett Turner I am using multimeter for most part :D
I know someone who can't see some blues correctly anyhow.
Maybe, someone can make "braille" cables for the individual conductors. :-)
Looks a bit like EZ-RJ! Nice!
Nice tool. Question is what do you use when you need sftp. So the shielding should also bis attached to the rj45 plug?
Thanks for sharing this info., much appreciated.
I've got the Klein tools version of this and once the blade wore out just a little it became a major problem for me. Had to redo many ends that tested OK but wouldn't deploy properly in a POE environment.
I like Platinum Tools.
I thought i was the only one who hates to crimp cables yet i run an it services company......i would definitely need this....
This doesn't eliminate any of the steps of crimping that actually suck. You still have to strip, untwist, straighten, sort, line up, and insert. You only get to skip the easiest step... trimming to length.
Does this work on Cat7, Cat8? Should, right?
I've seen a lot of noise on the IT Professionals facebook group regarding the ez-plugs and potential shorts in PoE equipment. Do you have any viewpoints on that?
Yes, don't crimp ends that are plugged in. POE has safety against shorts and anytime you cut a POE wire that is live, even to trim it, you could create a short.
I liked the idea of this but for some reason 1 and 8 didn't get a good connection. I have to stick with the old way. at times I need to be fast and it needs to work the first time.
i love this
Those are great when your at 130' on the tower and need to crimp a cable.
On a cell tower???
@@kevinportillo1971 any radio tower. Alot of WISP's run Cat5/6 up the tower with Poe works great. No RF losses.
Their also is a tool less RJ45 end that does not require any crimping and is easier than the standard jacks.
Winner winner chicken dinner!
Cat 5 RJ45 are on the way out as Cat 6 cabling takes over. I have yet to find an easy Cat 6 Crimping method.
You are in luck! They make these for cat6 as well. Same crimper, different RJ45 amzn.to/2IQqhxg
The crimping part isn't as difficult for me as getting the pin-outs right.
I thought passthrough rj45 doesn't meet some code criteria. I don't remember what that code was.
A lot of companies tell you not to use this type of crimper for Poe ports. Apparently there is a possibility for creating a short and burning the port or device.
Yes, but I don't think that's realistic.
Ridiculous comment made thousands of these crimps with zero issues
@@leeb5107 Now, be fair. While it's ridiculous to believe that there's any danger, it's perfectly relevant to comment that some people have this ridiculous belief. Sometimes the people on the other side of a contract believe ridiculous things and you have to either persuade or accommodate them.
I'm not sure about Poe but if you're dealing with cameras this is true. You will short it out if you cut all the cables at the same time. I don't see why this would be any different. I did it by accident on one of my cameras. Not with this tool but yeah things shorted. I also worked with some guys who installed cabling and cameras and they also warned me about it too. So yeah make sure the other side is not plugged in before cutting it if it's something to do with cameras. I haven't had the same issue with network cables though. Meaning those connected to computers.
@@myshots101 I made a similar mistake stripping wires as a kid, only I was using my teeth to strip wires in a live phone cable. I don't like the taste of dial tone. Good thing the phone didn't ring or I'd have been in much bigger trouble.
I simply do not crimp Ethernet cables anymore. Slow and not as good as bought cables.
I simply buy cables from 6in to 100ft as I need. Already tested and certified. Next!
and when you want to pass one througha cable gland, or a wall etc...?
Until you need 26 ft. Your choices are 25, 30 and 50 ft. All the extra is just clutter and unnecessary.
this takes longer than just doing it right the first time
pink hairbow in your head. how am i supposed to take you seriously.
It blows my mind you run a company on IT services and can't put on a connector lol
I can do it, but I hate doing it.
I don't blame him for specializing. There are numerous roles in IT that don't even require touching an Ethernet cable.
The market is very broad and there are a lot of different disciplines. My staff that does cable installs has a different skill set than my staff that does firewall configs.
I shouldn't have said it like that. You obviously made the one cable up purposefully bad to show the effectiveness of a pass through. When doing many terminations it is the way to go to make sure they're all seated and in the correct order. Love your videos. Every time I see one I think I wish this guy was in my area so I could work for him haha.
That's cheating!