Will a 60-foot run of CAT-5 ethernet cable work?

[Yanni Chiu]

Ijaaz A. Ullah wrote:
> You could:
> 1. cut both ends
> 2. join the solid/striped wires
> 3. use a 9 volt battery to test the pairs  (or any circuit tester/voltmeter/etc)
> 4. recrimp
> 
> re-crimping the ends may be enough to solve your problem.

Perfect - joining the solid/striped wires, that's the trick. And, after 
I do the test, I'll have to re-crimp - which is probably what's wrong 
(unless I have managed to put a nail through the cable).

--
The Toronto Linux Users Group.      Meetings: http://gtalug.org/
TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns
How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://gtalug.org/wiki/Mailing_lists