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<blockquote data-quote="Dan Mortensen" data-source="post: 147621" data-attributes="member: 2826">Re: CableWhat Mac said.Since you&#039;re posting here, Mac, can you please talk about the little gizmo I bought when you said you were going to get one which gives a seemingly adequate indication that a tested CAT cable passes or fails the Cat5-6 specifications? I&#039;ve been using mine and it&#039;s caught a couple failures and also said that the cables I&#039;m building pass CAT5e and approach CAT6 (Channel!), so that&#039;s been nice.<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000J157WQ?psc=1&amp;redirect=true&amp;ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o03_s00" target="_blank">http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000J157WQ?psc=1&amp;redirect=true&amp;ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o03_s00</a>There is some kind of dispute between Fluke and Byte Brothers/Triplett about whether what the latter does really counts as &quot;Certification&quot;, which is why I used the weasel words to describe what it does. For my purposes, having an indicator that a cable is good and a definitive indicator that it&#039;s bad is plenty good enough, since there&#039;s no way I can justify the $11,000+++ definitive measurement tool.Thanks!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dan Mortensen, post: 147621, member: 2826"] Re: Cable What Mac said. Since you're posting here, Mac, can you please talk about the little gizmo I bought when you said you were going to get one which gives a seemingly adequate indication that a tested CAT cable passes or fails the Cat5-6 specifications? I've been using mine and it's caught a couple failures and also said that the cables I'm building pass CAT5e and approach CAT6 (Channel!), so that's been nice. [url]http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000J157WQ?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o03_s00[/url] There is some kind of dispute between Fluke and Byte Brothers/Triplett about whether what the latter does really counts as "Certification", which is why I used the weasel words to describe what it does. For my purposes, having an indicator that a cable is good and a definitive indicator that it's bad is plenty good enough, since there's no way I can justify the $11,000+++ definitive measurement tool. Thanks! [/QUOTE]

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