[Gllug] Cat 5 Testing

[Peter Childs]

On Monday 02 June 2003 21:16, Alistair Mann wrote:
> Thus spaketh Simon Faulkner on Monday 02 June 2003 5:22 pm:
> > >>I can see no value in blinkenlights here except to impress the
> > >> clueless!<<
> >
> > Well, I can see your point but it is also nice to get a CATagoric answer
> > YES or NO!
>
> When Quantum Theory and Patch Panels collide, you can know either that teh
> cable works, or it is definitely the cable that you want to test, but you
> can never be absolutely sure of both...

	Not absolutly true. I know that cheap on-board network cards can be the 
problem. Even unbranded network cards are better than on-board ones. 
	The machines at work with this problem resopond to ping with very very long 
delays lose packets and recieve packets out of order. This happerns if the 
cable is disconnected and reconnected and happerns consiantly and until the 
machine is rebooted.....
	A Cheap cable tester (that only tests continuaty but that should be enough 
for most purposes) only cost about £50 though....

Peter Childs

>
> > >>impress the clueless!<<
> >
> > I'm an IT consultant - that's my job ;-)
>
> Ah! Of course ;-)
> --
> Alistair



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