A communications connector, comprising: a communications jack; and a communications plug that is mated with the jack, the plug including: a plug housing; a plurality of plug contacts that are mounted in a row at least partly within the plug housing, the plurality of plug contacts arranged as a plurality of differential pairs of plug contacts so that each of the differential pairs of plug contacts has a tip plug contact (440a, 440c, 440e, 440g) and a ring plug contact (440b, 440d, 440f, 440h); each plug contact being connected to a respective electrical contact by an electrical pathway to allow transmission of electrical signals from the electrical contacts to the plug contacts and thence to a contact of the mating jack; and a plug capacitor that injects crosstalk from a first of the tip plug contacts of a first differential pair to a first of the ring plug contacts of a second differential pair, characterized in that: the plug capacitor is connected to the first of the tip plug contacts and to the first of the ring plug contacts at locations that are further along the respective electrical pathways from the electrical contacts than the contacts of the mating jack so as to inject crosstalk from the first of the tip plug contacts to the first of the ring plug contacts at a point in time that is after the point in time when a signal transmitted through the first of the tip plug contacts to the contact of the mating jack reaches the contact of the mating jack. a communications jack; and a communications plug that is mated with the jack, the plug including: a plug housing; a plurality of plug contacts that are mounted in a row at least partly within the plug housing, the plurality of plug contacts arranged as a plurality of differential pairs of plug contacts so that each of the differential pairs of plug contacts has a tip plug contact (440a, 440c, 440e, 440g) and a ring plug contact (440b, 440d, 440f, 440h); each plug contact being connected to a respective electrical contact by an electrical pathway to allow transmission of electrical signals from the electrical contacts to the plug contacts and thence to a contact of the mating jack; and a plug capacitor that injects crosstalk from a first of the tip plug contacts of a first differential pair to a first of the ring plug contacts of a second differential pair, characterized in that: the plug capacitor is connected to the first of the tip plug contacts and to the first of the ring plug contacts at locations that are further along the respective electrical pathways from the electrical contacts than the contacts of the mating jack so as to inject crosstalk from the first of the tip plug contacts to the first of the ring plug contacts at a point in time that is after the point in time when a signal transmitted through the first of the tip plug contacts to the contact of the mating jack reaches the contact of the mating jack. a plug housing; a plurality of plug contacts that are mounted in a row at least partly within the plug housing, the plurality of plug contacts arranged as a plurality of differential pairs of plug contacts so that each of the differential pairs of plug contacts has a tip plug contact (440a, 440c, 440e, 440g) and a ring plug contact (440b, 440d, 440f, 440h); each plug contact being connected to a respective electrical contact by an electrical pathway to allow transmission of electrical signals from the electrical contacts to the plug contacts and thence to a contact of the mating jack; and a plug capacitor that injects crosstalk from a first of the tip plug contacts of a first differential pair to a first of the ring plug contacts of a second differential pair, characterized in that: the plug capacitor is connected to the first of the tip plug contacts and to the first of the ring plug contacts at locations that are further along the respective electrical pathways from the electrical contacts than the contacts of the mating jack so as to inject crosstalk from the first of the tip plug contacts to the first of the ring plug contacts at a point in time that is after the point in time when a signal transmitted through the first of the tip plug contacts to the contact of the mating jack reaches the contact of the mating jack.