Color-Coding Your Monster Networking

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1 First, remove the Navajo White plastic hood on each end of your DataSpeed " First, remove the Navajo White plastic hood First, remove the Navajo White plastic hood -350 cable. With the RJ45 connector in your hand, flat side up, you 9ll notice two T-shaped hooks on the existing hood; a big one on the connector end and a small one on the cable end. Lift both of the hooks using your fingernail, a blade, or similar device.

The hood will snap open, making it easy to remove. 2 Choose a pair of colored hoods from the colors included with your DataSpeed " from the colors included with your from the colors included with your 350 cable 3 yellow, red, blue, green and black. 3 Snap open the colored hood using the T-shaped flaps described in Step 1.

4 Place the colored hood over the RJ45 connector. Make sure the narrow end is pointed toward the cable and the wide rectangular end toward the front of the connector. Position the rounded flap over the end of the plastic tab.

5 Snap the two sides of the colored hood together. Make sure the T-shaped hooks are firmly in place. 6 Repeat steps 3, ... more. less.

4 and 5 for the other end of the cable. Color-Coding Your Monster Networking Color-Coding Color-Coding " Connections Your Monster Networking Your Monster Networking Keeping track of your network connections can be confusing, especially if every cable connected to your hub looks exactly the same. Thanks to Monster's anti-snag, colored hoods, you can now color-code the cables going to different computers and/or printers in your home or office, making network trouble- shooting, reconfiguring and expanding easier than ever. 6 Easy Steps to Better Cable Management: Inv. no. 756149 rev. A Terminating DataSpeed " 350 DataSpeed 350, like all other Category 5 cables, has four twisted pairs of wires which are covered by an outer jacket. The pairs consist of one colored wire (blue, orange, green, and brown) and one white wire with a corresponding color stripe (blue, orange, green and brown). Terminating Cat 5 cables properly ensures reliable data transmission. The following instructions are in compliance with Category 5 cabling standards. Monsterous Congratulations! You 9ve just successfully terminated a Category 5 cable! Terminating DataSpeed 1 Cut a length of DataSpeed 350 cable that meets your installation requirements. We suggest you cut a little more cable than you think you 9ll need, in case you run into unanticipated installation obstacles. 2 Strip back 1/2 inch of the cable jacket, using a stripping tool such as Monster 9s High Speed Computer Combination Network Tool. Do not strip back more than 1/2 inch of the cable jacket. This requirement ensures minimal untwisting of the colored wire pairs and separation of conductors within a pair, for minimal signal impairment. 3 Carefully untwist the exposed colored wires and align them in the following order, as shown in Figure 1 : 1 white/orange 5 white/blue 2 orange 6 green 3 white/green 7 white/brown 4 blue 8 brown 4 Flatten the colored wires. Insert them into an RJ45 connector, tab side down, without moving any of the wires out of place. Each colored wire corresponds to a designated pin in the RJ45 connector, as shown in Figure 2 . Gently push the wires all the way into the connector for a snug fit. 5 The gold pins on the flat side of the RJ45 connector are slightly raised up from their plastic enclosure. After you crimp the connector, they 9ll be flush with the enclosure and your connection will be secure. 6 Crimp the connector by inserting it into an 8-pin hole on a crimping tool such as Monster 9s High Speed Computer Combination Network Tool. Squeeze the crimping tool tightly. Pull out the cable and confirm that the gold pins on the tabless side of the connector are flush with the plastic surrounding them. Pin 1 Pin 8 Monster Cable ® 274 Wattis Way, South San Francisco, CA 94080 " 415/871-6000 " www.monstercable.com Figure 2

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