Before I started my upgrade I bought cat6 cable. The fiber optics were bing installed in our neighborhood and ditching DSL for fiber was a no brainer and thats when I decided to upgrade my camera as well. I pulled in two runs initally to the spare bedroom I use from the other end of the house where the utilities and come in and where the original cam is mounted on the garage.
I put a wall plate in with 4 terminals and one is dedicated to the fiber incoming and the others are intended for cams.
I didnt have my new camera yet but when I ordered the cable from cables plus I think and they had a kit of 250 feet of solid wire and about 20 connectors and a cheap crimp tool.
First lesson I learned is the crimp tool wasnt worth throwing away. I aquired a quality crimper and borrowed a Fluke hand held cable tester. I terminated the patch cable to the keystone jack and the other end in the attic just to have it ready and made another patch cable to go from the wall to the router for the soon to be completed fiber install. I checked both cables and had to redo one end of the patch cable and they tested OK.
The fiber optic guys showed up and did their thing using the second cable I had ran but I let them terminate it themselves. Good to go,,fast fast fast.
So by then I had my new camera and was ready to connect it and make sure it was good before I hung it on the house. Used a couple short premade cables to plug in Poe injector and hooked up the cam and it was all good to go.
I take the cam and plug it in up in the attic just to be safe and boo hiss got a not detected error.
I use the Fluke microscanner again and it shows wiremap is good, I can see the hub and speed. I can even see the length of the cable 110 feet and cant understand why. I go back and do the same test with a short premade cable and same results except the length was shorter.
WTF??? So I took a chance and cut off the cam end of my long cable and redid it. The connectors supposedly do not need to be stripped since the bayonets will make connection when crimping but after I threaded on the small plastic guide I partially stripped the wires on the bayonet side. Put the insert in the body, checked the alignment of wires and crimpted. Camera now OK.
What bugs me is the Fluke showed the wire map was good using the end plug and plugging it into the cable when attached to the router it showed the hub same as before with no changes. Yet now the cam is detected and working.
I dont do a lot of ethernet cable stuff. I am more used to amphenol type connectors for industry but those are going to ethernet now for a lot of things.
I didnt think the quality of the RJ45 connectors was a big deal but I may be wrong.
Anyone else ever come accross this? Sorry for the long post but I wasted far too much time dicking around with this.
I put a wall plate in with 4 terminals and one is dedicated to the fiber incoming and the others are intended for cams.
I didnt have my new camera yet but when I ordered the cable from cables plus I think and they had a kit of 250 feet of solid wire and about 20 connectors and a cheap crimp tool.
First lesson I learned is the crimp tool wasnt worth throwing away. I aquired a quality crimper and borrowed a Fluke hand held cable tester. I terminated the patch cable to the keystone jack and the other end in the attic just to have it ready and made another patch cable to go from the wall to the router for the soon to be completed fiber install. I checked both cables and had to redo one end of the patch cable and they tested OK.
The fiber optic guys showed up and did their thing using the second cable I had ran but I let them terminate it themselves. Good to go,,fast fast fast.
So by then I had my new camera and was ready to connect it and make sure it was good before I hung it on the house. Used a couple short premade cables to plug in Poe injector and hooked up the cam and it was all good to go.
I take the cam and plug it in up in the attic just to be safe and boo hiss got a not detected error.
I use the Fluke microscanner again and it shows wiremap is good, I can see the hub and speed. I can even see the length of the cable 110 feet and cant understand why. I go back and do the same test with a short premade cable and same results except the length was shorter.
WTF??? So I took a chance and cut off the cam end of my long cable and redid it. The connectors supposedly do not need to be stripped since the bayonets will make connection when crimping but after I threaded on the small plastic guide I partially stripped the wires on the bayonet side. Put the insert in the body, checked the alignment of wires and crimpted. Camera now OK.
What bugs me is the Fluke showed the wire map was good using the end plug and plugging it into the cable when attached to the router it showed the hub same as before with no changes. Yet now the cam is detected and working.
I dont do a lot of ethernet cable stuff. I am more used to amphenol type connectors for industry but those are going to ethernet now for a lot of things.
I didnt think the quality of the RJ45 connectors was a big deal but I may be wrong.
Anyone else ever come accross this? Sorry for the long post but I wasted far too much time dicking around with this.
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