Everest easyJACK - 90° Angled Speed Termination Keystone Tool Set - with 20-Pack of RJ45 Slim Profile Cat6 Keystone Jacks (10 Blue & 10 White) - Time Saver Network Cat6 Punchdown Tool

I have punched down a lot of network cables manually and this has been by far the easiest tool to use to terminate network cables and it's solid. It still requires the same work, but in the end it punches all 8 wires at once. From experience, anytime I have ever punched down keystone jacks manually, if you did so much as breathing on it the wrong way, a wire comes loose. The same after testing and simply pushing it back into the wall. With this tool, I can push, twist, pull it by the wire, pop it into a quick port, remove it, pop it again and it has not once came loose. Since I started using this tool, they have tested good 100% of the time. I ended up wiring one wrong and I can confirm that the wires are punched down solid and it was very difficult to pull the wires from the jack. I thought I was going to have to give up and toss it. Super solid. I would definitely recommend this tool. A bit of advice to anyone purchasing this tool. Do not use network cable with the super thin pairs of wires. Make sure you spend a little more or else this may not be the right termination tool for you. Also, if you are like me and you like to put the cable jacket halfway into the jack, don't do that on these. There isn't a lot of room so you crush the wires. I'm sure it would still work, but it will most likely cause problems down the road. One last item is that the plastic cover you pop onto the jack, don't freak out because it is NOT designed to be fully seated onto the jack. I sat there for about 10 minutes trying to figure it out why it wasn't seated down all the way. I am not personally a fan of this design, but it still works. CON: They designed this in a way that requires you to purchase their proprietary keystone jacks if you want to continue using this tool. It's not a universal fit to match basically every other keystone jacks out there. I tried other keystone jacks I had laying around and can confirm this. I don't have every keystone jack ever made so I can't say this is correct 100% across the board, but I'm 99.9% sure this is the case.

Easy to use, includes lots of keystone jacks, and great value (especially comparing to some other, very expensive keystone kits). This is much easier to use than pass-through jacks and crimps very quickly. None of my crimps have any signal issues - and I have a couple of my cables doing 2.5 gigabit.

I've keystoned a fair amount of cabling over the years, somewhere over 2,000 terminations. I bought this crimp tool, along with EMS's RJ45 jacks in bulk, for my own remodel. Wish I'd found these years ago. There's a very mild learning curve and it's important to get the tension set properly. Once you're there, this is an amazing tool. No more pucks to deal with to keep dents off drywall. No more bang-bang-bang impact tool to mash a hole in your finger when your hands get tired or sweaty and a keystone rolls out from under the impact tool. None of that. A couple of hours to terminate 30 cables at both ends (I don't claim to be fast), everything was muscle memory by the 4th or 5th keystone. Push wire into one side of the keystone, turn the cable into its valley, push 4 more in, check, set the keystone in the crimper, one squeeze and you're done; the tool seats and cleaves in one go. Perfect terminations, 60 for 60, all confirmed by my Fluke CIQ. Happy times, next task. The system isn't cheap. It's also not cheaply made. The crimper has good hand feel and its padded case has real rather than living hinges and closures. Can't speak to its long term durability or how long its blades stay viably sharp after one small project, but I'm relegating my Fluke crimper, impact tool and puck (if I can find it) to a dusty, disused corner of the tool cabinet. VERY well done, EMS!

I really enjoy this item and their connectors. It makes it very easy to punch down keystones with one crimp. I terminated approximately 42 keystones with only two issues which makes for about a 95% accuracy. I really do not know why two of the connections we're not good. It did seem I needed to pull out my punch down and apply more pressure on some of the wires to make good connections. Overall I am very pleased with this crimper and keystones. The colors on the keystones are very easy to see and not difficult to distinguish the colors. The boxes the keystones come in make it very easy for the keystones to fall out after future use. It would be nice if they packaged them in ziploc style plastic bags to keep all the pieces together.

This tool is easy to use. Traditional punch down tools are fine, but can be fiddly when one isn’t running cable every day or every week. Last night I redid most of my old connections to a patch panel to a new panel with insets for keystone jacks. It was so easy and each connection was right the first time! I realize that with more experience and training I could get a lot faster and yield better results, so I blame myself rather than my old tools, but I am so relieved to have a tool that is so easy to use and reliable! It is well worth it for running Ethernet in your home or one-off office setup.

Excellent tool to work with

I needed to convert 7 CAT5E drops in my new home, which were originally setup as RJ11 phone jacks, to CAT5E RJ45. If I had to do this with traditional punch down tools it would have take much longer. 7 drops, 8 wires and 2 jacks for each drop equates to 112 wires I would have had to punch down, individually on all the jacks, to complete the project. This tool and the provided easyJACKs (which you have to use with the tool) punches down all 8 wires on the jack at once and cuts the ends off. It worked perfectly and I couldn't have been happier with the results. I don't typically review products, but this one was a game changer for my project. I wish they had tools and jacks like this when I used to punch down dozens of these, routinely, as part of my work 20 years ago.

La herramienta funciona muy bien, nada más tener cuidado al comprar JACK deben ser los modelos que indica, ya que solo es funciona para esos conectores,

Extremely satisfied with this purchase. I almost don't want to share this because I want it to stay a secret. Major time-saver, unbeatable price, high quality, every keystone gets punched down perfectly and passes my fluke without issue and I've ordered hundreds at the time of this review. Highly recommended

Have you ever sliced up your hand trying to use a traditional punch-down tool to terminate keystone connectors? I have, and it sucks, so having a tool like this one is awesome, and boy does it ever save time! It's not perfect and has drawbacks, but I'd take this tool any day of the week over a punchdown tool and bandaged hand. First, you'll need to use this with Everest Media keystones, so this won't help you with whatever other keystones you may have. I can't confirm if any other brands work in this tool, but trying this may damage the tool or the keystone jacks. Fortunately, I've found Everest jacks to be of good quality and fairly easy to use, and they do fit into Ubiquiti's patch panels (which have holes too small for other brands' jacks like Hubbell's). The tool is a little flimsy-feeling and doesn't exude the quality of proper "professional" brands, but I haven't experienced any failures or issues with anything breaking just yet. The push-down pins inside are delicate, so you could break them by crimping down a keystone that isn't fully inserted, which itself can be tricky. I have found that getting keystones inserted correctly into this tool takes practice. You have to carefully finagle the connector around inside the tool until the jack face sticks out of the tool as far as possible (just over 1mm or so). It can take a few tries, and I found this rather difficult with the first several connectors I crimped. It would have been nice to see a ratcheting mechanism on this tool, which would make it easier for those with low grip strength to ensure they have fully inserted the wires, but this is not a big deal. The tool does include a little case, which feels cheap. I just toss this in my toolbox, but I can see how some would worry about damaging the pins inside, so the case is a nice addition and can also hold several keystones alongside the tool. Overall, this is a great tool at a very reasonable price if you're okay committing to Everest's keystone jacks, but if you do commercial data installation for a living, I worry this wouldn't hold up for heavy-duty use.

Pues me gusto mucho lo práctico que Es para instalar una red con jack Keytone. Deja muy bien ponchado . El costo beneficios recomendado

First time using this brand but have already ordered another tool and several hundred jacks. We have used all of the other brands of termination tools and jacks including Commscope, Belden, Panduit, Legrand, Wireworks etc and these work just as well. The tool is well constructed and the jacks pass cat6 testing performed with a set of Fluke Versive Testers. We probably install upwards of 10k jacks per year so we know a decent product when we see it. At this price? It's 1/4 the cost of the next most likely jack and less than 10% of many of them. Can't say anything about the durability as we just started with them but heck! It's not a dune buggy.