I have cat-5 cable and am using a linksys router. I hooked up 2 computers already, all is good there, but the 3rd computer is having problems, and I think the problem roots at the Cat-5 for it. That was the one computer I chose to make my own cable with (because it's 150 feet away). Initially when i did it, it worked when he hung it loose. Then they moved the wire a bit or something like that and it t would work once and a while depending on it's position. Thinking it might have a bad end connection, I tried cutting that end off, and connecting a new connector. The end hangs loose in his network card and jiggles around some. For some reason or another it is not working at all now though, not even forming a connection with the router. All seems good at the router end connection, but I'm wondering, do I need to strip each individual end of the inner wires? From what I understand I don't/didn't have to. I'd love any help on this, thanks in advance.