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Why doesn my female to female ethernet connector work?

April 26, 2017Computer Computers connector Ethernet female internet networking

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Why doesn my female to female ethernet connector work?

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Just because it looks OK doesn’t mean it is. The only way to test it is with an ethernet cable tester. Just because the light comes on doesn’t mean anything. Save yourself some grief and just buy a new cable.

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It could be that the connection is loose between your “broken” cord and the new one F2F piece have gotten, or the F2F piece is defective. If you want you can cut the “broken” cable, strip the cable, and place a new jack on it.

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Make sure you really have a “Eithernet” F2F adapter. There are 8-wire RJ45 Telco connectors and 8-wire RJ45 Eithernet adapters. The eithernet one usually has one plug go in “upside-down” from the other because the pins are a different sequence. Wrong thing: http://www.radioshack.com/product/index…. Right thing: http://www.radioshack.com/product/index…. You’d probably do better to buy a jack, cut the bad end off your cable, and splice it in place. This doesn’t require any special tools but you’d need another network cable to reach from the jack to your whatever. Jack: http://www.radioshack.com/product/index…. Then snap that into one of these…they have blank snap-ins to cover the second hole. Surface-