A lot of tutorials are old. Mechanical splices have improved very quickly in the past 5 years. Talking with my friend who is an home automation installer, he

A lot of tutorials are old. Mechanical splices have improved very quickly in the past 5 years. Talking with my friend who is an home automation installer, he says they now just use mechanical crimp splices and they don't take them longer than, say, prepping and terminating a coax cable. He says it's definitely shorter now than the average time they spend trying to untwist, straighten, and line up wires in a cat connector. They used to use connectors requiring polishes that took 30 minutes