Color Code for Crimping Cat5, Cat5e or Cat6 cables

I am an accountant by profession.  I am currently holding around 12 companies under my fingers.  But in one way or another, I am bound to help my teammates.  One of these ways is helping them with the computers.  Then there comes connecting their computers into the LAN network.  And so on...

Yesterday, I had to re-crimp a LAN cable as it seemed to have a "loose contact" in one end.  You may think crimping a LAN cable is way too far away from an accountant's work.  But if you take a look at it closely, you'll see how easy it is.

The main thing with crimping a LAN cable is that you know the color codes.  You splice, and slot in the cable unto the RJ45 jack.  Tighten it... and its done!  I assume you know that a crimper is need here, of course.

For the color code sequence, here is what I got:

RJ45 Color Code

I am using the straight-through color codes as it is pretty basic.  Its a plain 1-to-1 setting.  Just put the right colors in the right order and it should work just nice.

Here is another way of showing you the color code:

And here is my very own crimp.  We don't have any crimper in the office yet, so I borrowed a rusty one from our contractor.

my very own crimp.  :-)

Like I said, crimping is pretty easy of you know the color code sequence.  Nothing fancy actually.  No need to be so techy just to do a simple crimp.