LAN / SAT wiring in single-family house

I'll just jump in here because I'm currently wiring Cat7 cables onto Cat6 sockets (+patch panel).

How did you handle the shielding? Did you completely cut off the shielding (aluminum foil) after stripping the cables and only cut off just enough so that you could barely terminate the wires using LSA?

I think the fiddling with the aluminum foil is the most problematic part. If I could simply cut it off completely in the last 3 cm, I would be much faster.
Also, I see a risk at the patch panel that the aluminum foil could touch the contacts of the neighboring port.

Attached is a picture of how I am currently doing it (wrapped the aluminum foil around the wires as much as possible):

Cat7 cables/LAN cables are not screwed on. They are terminated with an LSA tool. You also have to be very careful because of the shielding.

You can do it yourself, you need such a tool, a lot of time, have to work precisely, and can hardly test the proper success.

Right, you can hardly test it anyway, because in practice it is hardly relevant for most whether they now have 1 GBit/s or only 825 MBit/s. There are dozens of other bottlenecks. Besides, you can also press the wires between the blades of the LSA strips with a small screwdriver. You don’t really believe that the electrician (possibly just the trainee) strips and arranges the wires in the box with lots of care and according to Feng Shui, do you?

I’m jumping in here because I’m currently installing Cat7 cables on Cat6 sockets (+ patch panel).

How did you handle the shielding? Did you cut off the entire shielding (aluminum foil) after stripping the cables and only cut off just enough so that you could still terminate the wires using LSA?

I find that fiddling with the aluminum foil is the most problematic part. If I could just cut it off completely on the last 3 cm, I’d be much faster.
Also, on the patch panel, I see the risk that the aluminum foil could touch the contacts of the neighboring port.

Attached is a picture of how I’m currently doing it (aluminum foil wrapped around the wires as much as possible):

Theoretically, you could separate the wire pairs and leave the aluminum foil on, then use some heat shrink tubing over it to secure and insulate everything.
The question is whether you actually notice a difference in practice if 3 cm of shielding is missing...

If you want to do it professionally, the foil should be left up to the contacts...

Besides that, you can also press the wires between the blades of the LSA strips using a small screwdriver.

And this is botching it times ten!

You should NEVER recommend something like that! The LSA strips are forced apart, and afterwards, with a bit of luck, you only have a more bad than right functioning socket... Regulations and special tools do not exist for no reason.

You don’t really believe that the electrician (possibly even just the apprentice) carefully strips and aligns the wires in the socket with great care and according to Feng Shui, do you?

Unbelievable, but yes, that’s how electricians or telecommunications technicians do it when they work according to the applicable standards.

If you want to do it properly, the foil should be left up to the contacts...





And this is botch times 10!

You should NEVER recommend something like this! The LSA strips are pushed apart and afterwards you only have a barely working socket if you're lucky... Regulations and special tools are not just there for nothing.



Unbelievable, but yes, that's how electricians or communications technicians do it when they work according to the applicable standards.

Exactly, IF!!!
I myself once trained at Telekom and even there a wire is quickly pressed in with the screwdriver. I'm not talking about a 1.2 x 8 mm screwdriver here, but one with a thickness comparable to the wire itself, the contact can definitely handle that.
That it is then not as the manufacturer imagines or as the textbook says is absolutely clear, but especially in Germany, a lot of fuss is made about many things, from which you later don't notice any difference in practice.

You can also connect an outlet with your fingers without removing the fuse and without connecting the protective earth conductor... It works and in practice you don't notice any difference.

But it's shoddy work and remains shoddy work.