If the plate
covers a hole in the wall, you don??âĒt need to take this step.
If the cable is much too long, cut it down to length.
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Using a cable stripper, strip off the plastic cover from the last one-and-a-half
inches of the cable to give yourself enough wire to work with.
Remove the connector block from the back of the wall plate, and then arrange
the wires carefully in the slots on the block, as shown in Figure 9-9,
following the guide in Table 9-1.
Two wiring standards are widely used for Ethernet cables. The standard shown in this section is
called T568A and is considered technically superior to the other standard, T568B, because it has
better backward compatibility. The difference between the two standards is that the pin positions
of the orange pair of wires and the green pair of wires are reversed. Both standards work fine as
long as you make sure that each cable uses only one standard: each end of the cable must be
connected in the same way, so the easiest approach is to choose one standard and stay with it.
Starting with the first wire, align the punch-down tool with its trimming
blades on the outside of the connector, and then press it down firmly. The
punch-down tool pushes the wire into its slot, so that it makes contact with
the blades on either side, and trims off any excess length of wire.
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