Re: CAT5 tester

["David Buckley" <db@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, Stuart Grimshaw
<stuart.grimshaw@g...> wrote:
> While this will test for electrical continuity, it wont
> actually test wether [sic] 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.

Indeed, back in the good old days, "Category 5" when applied to a
data installation meant something, namely that the installation had
been tested and certified to the Category 5 standard.  You even used
to get documentation to that effect, full of graphs and reports out
of the test equipment, and a fifteen year performance guarantee.
All for about twenty quid a port, when you bought the installation
of presentations by the thousand.

So I s'pose I could ask the professional installers on the list - do
you certify your Cat5 installations using the appropriate test
equipment, or do you just do what the rest of us diy installers do,
ie connect them up and continuity test them?