LINKUP Cat8 Keystone Easy Press Tool

Why did you pick this product vs others?:GreatSignal quality:Perfect

good online instructions

Finally something to fit my 22awg cat8.It's tight but does fit and work.Expensive, but come to find out it's hard to just buy rj45 cat8 make terminals.These are certified too. Time will tell if the PCB holds up. But finally a good product that fits what the description says.

After removing the jacket on some CAT 8 cable I thought I was in over my head attempting to install the keystone terminations. Luckily it went smoothly and all 12 terminations worked like a charm.Given you can technically reuse these keystone terminations it would be nice if they shipped extra metal tape. I have a couple of cables I want to shorten (need to remove slack in a wall) and I'm debating reusing three keystone plugs and omitting the tape or buying three more..... for the price I want to reuse but I don't want to deal with signal issues due to a lack of $0.01 of tape.Some hints I picked up along the way:1) Use the B wiring standard, there is less wire overlap that way and I think it has a slightly better SNR than A wiring.2) Get yourself the clamping tool, if you are spending all this money on CAT8 cabling might as well do it right. I accidentally ordered the wrong clamping tool and had to push fairly hard to close these keystone terminations. Eventually I ended up finishing each using vice grips but the clamping tool should apply force more evenly.3) When pushing the individual lines into the white plastic guide, take your time and plan the routes of each wire first. Don't mangle up the wires changing your mind which path each wire takes.

This one is kind of hard to give a rating for, because yes the product works, and yes it is decent quality, but its not perfect and the price demands perfection. Let me start off by saying yes they work good from what I can tell, I havent tried pushing GIG speeds through them yet, but they have no problems running 100s of Megabits. The install wasnt terrible either. You do need a couple tools: something to strip the outer jacket, and come pliers or wire cutters that can make a very close cut. I would also recommend something like Robogrip pliers or something similar; I will explain why in a bit.The packaging could use some work, I think these are single use (could be wrong) and the way they are packaged they could easily lock themselves in transit. If it wasnt for the price I wouldnt harp on this, but again that price demands perfection. Its just in a plastic bag. The copper foil that it comes with is of poor quality. Its not a big deal, for most people, but remember the price. The foil is too small and the adhesive is terrible. The ziptie could have been a tad heftier too. The keystone itself is pretty nice though. Its made out of a decent alloy or composite of some type. The wire guide is fairly easy to setup and its nice it has the A and B scheme right on it. Espically because the LINKUP wire that I used (the good stuff, the 22 AWG LINKUP) didnt have colored stripes on the whites, so you have to keep the pairs together. Now this is more about the wire, but for the price of it they couldnt stripe the whites?Anyways the only issue I had installing them was getting the wire guide fully situated in the keystone. This is where those Robogrips come in. You basically need 3-4 arms to do this part. You have to make sure the wire guide is in correctly, while pushing it into the keystone. Its so hard to close you will need those Robogrips to fully close it. So while your doing that you have to grab the Robogrips and get them on the keystone. 1 other tiny problem I had is with that copper tape I mentioned before. Again, its terrible and it was hard to get the shielding properly situated and the copper tape to actually stick.Even though I bashed on this product a bit, most of it was knit picking because of the price. Overall it is a good product with an INSANE price tag. That is the main reason it loses stars.

Making the cables up is pretty straightforward. I have tried many other connectors and have found that this is the best. My previous review talked about the cables failing. But after many other connectors being tried, I discovered that the cause of the failures was a broken conductor within a brand new roll of cat 8 wire. So I apologize for my assumption that the failure was due to this connector. Believe me when I say that the competitor connectors are much harder to make. And I have found that this is the best one available.

OLD-Pins don't make contactTried both 568 A and B and the connector doesn't make contact with the cablesUpdatedI reviewed and I made the mistake to purchase this adapter, my cable is 26 AWG and this conector is only compatible with 22 - 24 AWGOverall simple to use, and good instruction set.

There were no packed instructions on how to use the do-it-yourself cat 8 ethernet replacement connectors/kit. Amazon product video instructions were not very helpful either. I looked on Youtube and found one video that had fairly good\detailed instructions. I spent two days cutting/stripping cat 8 cable and trying to wire the cat 8 ethernet jacks according to both the T568A and T568B standards, but, I could not get a signal on either of the two ethernet connectors with the cat 8 cable (I checked by plugging into my laptop ethernet jack from my house router jacks). Several times I repeated the process: cutting the used piece of cable off, stripping off a new section of cable and do the process of preparing the wiring for the ethernet connectors, but to no avail. It's possible I didn't do the procedure correctly, but I'm truly disappointed in this product. It's not worth the trouble or money in my opinion.