Please note also that I also did not choose to invest in a special-purpose cable tester, and with no obvious way to lay my hands on one, I’ll confess I did not bother bend heaven and earth to acquire one (and the necessary training to use and interpret the results of one) prior t...
It really helps to have a punchdown tool (they are like $20 at Home Depot) but if you only have a single connection to do you can either get a tool-less connector or get by with a very small screwdriver to push the wires into the connections. With either connector type it is ...