[Gllug] Cat 5 Testing

[Tethys]

"Simon Faulkner" writes:

>Cat 5 testers seem to cost around £4000 which is outside our budget.
>
>Does anyone know of any other testers/software for Laptops?

Plug two machines into a cheap (10 quid) switch, and see if they can
ping each other. If so, your cables are fine :-)

Tet

PS. Yes, it's a trite answer, but it does actually work...


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