Networking Lab 2

Lab Name: Network Cabling

Date: 9/9/2007

Name: Leo Burke

Partner: Thomas Neito

Objectives: From a spool of Catagory 5 wire, we were to strip the wire, unwind, and wire it into a network cable, and a crossover cable.

Equipment list:

Cat 5 wire

Network clips

Scissors

Cable insulator scoring device

Network Crimper.

Notes and Observations: The hard part of this lab was getting the wiring right. In order for a network or crossover cable to work, the wiring had to be set up just right. Working with it turned out to be very problematic, and required multiple attempts. However, we persevered and eventually got the wires corrected.

Diagrams, flowcharts, and figures:








References: Lab 2 Handout

Questions:

1.The purpose of the twisted wires is to prevent crosstalk between wires.

2.Thinnet, which is coaxial cable, is a cheap alternative to UTP. UPT stands for unprotected twisted pair. Both can carry an ethernet signal, but UTP is used everywhere anyway, and is much easier to set up.

3.It is important not to untwist the cables as much as possible, because a break in the twist might induce crosstalk, making the rest of the cable's twisting pointless.

Conclusions:

The lab went well, as well as it could have for being my first experience at making a cat-5 cable. At first it was very difficult ordering the color-coded wires and getting them inside the clip properly. After at least 2 tries, the cable was finnaly wired correctly with the clip contacts. Wiring the cable up to the data jack was a little difficult, since I had to see an example before I could get it right, but once I did, it was very easy. Now I have a crossover cable, and a network cable, and I know how to make both.