Re: CAT5 tester

[Stuart Grimshaw <stuart.grimshaw@xxxxxxxxx>]

While this will test for electrical continuity, it wont actually test
wether you've wired them up right. This very test was tried by Umar's
sparky and everything tested fine, but the pairs were wired up wrong
and as a result, none of the ports worked.

Of course actually wiring up to one of the two standards
(http://www.bluemax.net/techtips/networking/Wiring_Tips/Wiring100TX/colorcodestandards.htm)
would also have helped. It took considerable amounts of my (and the
groups) time to diagnose the fault, then even more time for the sparky
to go round and fix it!!

On Thu, 2 Sep 2004 22:23:01 +0100, John Nye <lists@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi Ian,
>
> Its not very elegant but this is what I do when I run 2 lengths of
cat5 to a
> socket:
>
> Connect the 2 sockets together with a length of cat5 to make a loop.
>
> Use a multimeter at the source end to check that each of the 8 cables
is
> complete.
>
> Has worked fine for me so far and no need for expensive testers.

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-S