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• quinkin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Like the other reply in the crosspost said, it sounds like you are trying to reuse the clear plastic thingy and that will not work.

  When you crimp on a connector little metal blades are pushed into the wire channels and that is what is blocking your wires and making them bend.

  I would recrimp the cable with a new connector, all of my friends would replace the whole cable.

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  • kapx132@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I thing i just phrased it wrong, i got the tools and a new connector.

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• TheBananaKing@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I used to replace RJ45 connectors.

  The juice is not worth the squeeze. It’s fiddly and annoying and frustrating and oh god why. New cables - certified cat6 - are cheap and don’t drain your sanity.

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• tony@lemmy.hoyle.me.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Some of the better replacement connectors have guides that you feed the cables through so you don’t get that issue.

  It’s a good skill to have, making your own, but there’s no shame in going out and buying one & working out the details for next time without the pressure of ‘my internet doesn’t work’.

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• Red0ctober@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Buy a new one. In order to get it fixed, you would need a crimping tool and a new RJ45 head. I personally like making my own custom lengths of CAT6 cable, but they’re cheap enough you shouldn’t need to worry about it.

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  • kapx132@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I got the tools necesary but i have a problem aligning the small coloured wires into type A.

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    • Brokkr@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Swearing helps, it’s a frustrating task.

      Try laying the wires across a piece of tape to help keep them aligned. Painters tape or a narrow strip of duct tape should work. Striping back just the right length actually makes it easier for me since the wires can’t move around as much.

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    • Red0ctober@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Some RJ55 heads come with a small plastic guide for aligning the wires. Otherwise, it just takes practice.

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• BrownianMotion@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Get wire cutters, and SNIP. Then get new crimp connector and align. Next, use crimp tool to mate connector to wires.

  Really? This is the posts we get in Tech sub these days?

  1. Should be somewhere else like electronics or homerepairs
  2. ugh, I cannot be bothered.

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