Peter Bull wrote:

So the moral of the story is buy your CAT 5 or  6 cables already made up.
Thanks to Zytec in Bunbury for supplying cables at a very good price and with quick delivery.
Peter Bull
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Many, many crimps later - no failures, but people do complain I'm a bit slow ;) I used to build engines too, same success, same complaints. There is no pleasing some folk.

These guys in O'Connor are good for cables/cabling etc too:

http://www.siwa.com.au/

This might help too:

http://202.72.180.75/~Home/images/RJ45Crossover.jpg

http://202.72.180.75/~Home/images/RJ45Straight.gif

Cheers

Paul