pbxn

If your looking for a good network cable tester, take at look at flukenetworks.com. They have testers to measure crosstalk, shorts, opens etc. Open the pocket book though mine cost me around 7G's

Danbhalah

I used to work for BT in the UK and they had testers for all your needs, the recent addition was the Hawk. Where to get one now that is a good question.

rixride

Look up a Pentascanner on Ebay or google, you may find some good used one. Also there was a smaller version of this, the name eludes me but it would tell you cable length by plugging into one side so if the cable was cut it would give you the footage of how long it was . It made it great when you were trouble shooting broken or nic'd cables. I will see if I can find the name of it.

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notheruser

Most of the tests you need to do will be performed by a cable scanner as used by IT people for testing Cat5 and 5e cable installations. If you can pick up an old tester such as the Fluke DSP-100 2nd hand, it will do your job very well. Be aware however, that some of these older devices used NiCd batteries, which were made specifically for that one instrument, and when they die, they cost a fortune to replace. If you know anyone in the IT industry, see if they can help out - quite a number of cable installers would have had to upgrade instruments as clients moved from Cat5 to 5e, and possibly to Cat6. Since you are not interested in certifying cables - only finding faults - a Cat5 scanner will do your job very well.

Most of them will NOT do cable insulation, however, if you're working with cables which may have been damaged, (and so affected insulation) there will very likely be another fault which a scanner will pick up.

You also need to be aware that for many of the tests, the scanner needs to be attached to a properly terminated cable (i.e. terminated in RJ45 connectors), and you need access to both ends (there is a test unit, and a remote unit). You can do cable length okay from a single end though.

AbuSuhail

I realy appreciate all your posts, Thank you

davemcfarland

if you have deep pockets get a 965 dsp cable analyzer , if you have lent and not much in your pockets and an old but working cable tester... also called a 645 I think..


the item in ebay right now is 120119684974 that is for the 3m 965 dsp