Platinum EZ Snapjack Cable Pin Wiring Not Standard???

The Snapjack looks like a 2 part system where you put the wires into a guide, and then snap the guide into the actual jack/outlet. 

They are saying the pairs will be “wrong” in the guide, but will be right on the actual pins in the jack once terminated. The PCB in the jack puts everything in proper order, and most likely has a twist of its own. This may be due to the Snapjack system having too much untwist at the jack to pass certification without doing something like this. 

I wonder why the video didn’t say the EZ-Snapjack pinouts will conform to T568 wiring standards if you use our color arangement because we handle the path correction internally in the Snapjack?  

I read the Amazon rewiews of the Snapjack and it didn’t reassure me they follow the standard.

https://smile.amazon.com/Platinum-Tools-EZ-SnapJack-White-Clamshell/dp/B00GFZH4SU/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1515377635&sr=8-2&keywords=Platinum+tools+ez-snapjack

I’m with Jim on this one.

The old EZ SnapJack wireguide was what you would expect 1-2,3-6,4-5,7-8.

Now it’s kinda backwards (on a pair by pair basis) but not exactly 2-1,3-6,5-4,8-7.

They say they redesigned the product and improved it, but they don’t say, at least as far as I can see, what the improvement was.

It would have to be an incredible breakthru to justify rewiring my brain like that.  Bound to slow you down and increase errors.  

Errors on the 4-5,7-8 pairs that nobody notices til they try to use gig ethernet.

Maybe I could see a straight thru wire guide, 1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8, as that’s at least easier physically and pretty much a no-brainer.  Also, it would keep the pairs closer together longer.

But the way they did it is not EZ, it’s just crazy.

They even disabled comments in the video on Youtube. Makes no sense as they could have easily explained the reason for this arrangement. Seems as if they could care less about problems in the field as I can see a technician troubleshooting this, seeing that the orientation is not to standard and thus creating more problems with the eventual outcome leading to the tech replacing the jack and trashing this one.

This image:

From the SnapJack PDF explains how the wiring gets transposed/corrected in the jack.

Rather than use an EZ-Snapjack I decided to go with CAT6 cable for 1 run and put an EZ-RJ45 male plug on each end.

To clean up one end and create a wall jack from the female RJ45 I decided to use a female to female wall plate from Amazon:

1 Port F to F Ethernet Wall Plate

Nice simple solution and, if you hade enough room to feed a patch cable with RJ45's already attached, you could use premade patch cables with a wall plate on each end.

 LOL "F to F Ethernet - AKA gender bender"

Kinky but at least the next tech will find standard bondage color mapping. :)