I've wondered why I rarely, if ever, see any cable testers at the
conferences given the work we do.
Ken Hohhof wrote:
Well, then you’ve never done a wiring job for a business or school or
govt that requires documented qualification tests on every drop.
But yeah, I assume Forrest is trying to test that his GbE POE doesn’t
degrade any of the specs like crosstalk, attenuation, return loss,
etc., or to quantify how much you have to derate the 100 meter
distance to compensate for inserting the POE?
I used to have a Pentascanner, but the Fluke website says that line
was EOM in 2004 and EOS in 2008. Way to make me feel old! No idea if
the current DSX-5000 can test through the transformers in a gigabit
POE, or be convinced to run the qualification tests even if the DC
tests fail.
*From:* Mike Hammett <mailto:[email protected]>
*Sent:* Saturday, February 13, 2016 10:36 AM
*To:* [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
*Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] Gigabit "cable validator" which validates
*through* a Gigabit PoE Injector?
The only thing that matters to me is iPerf. :-) Granted, I'm not
creating components and troubleshooting why when they're in place they
may not be getting full throughput anymore.
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*From: *"Forrest Christian (List Account)" <[email protected]>
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*Subject: *Re: [AFMUG] Gigabit "cable validator" which validates
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I'm already doing that, but it doesn't help to verify things like near
end crosstalk, insertion loss, etc. etc. etc.
It's just a 'everything is fine' vs 'what does the cable look like' test.
On Sat, Feb 13, 2016 at 7:09 AM, Mike Hammett <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
The best cable tester I've found is iPerf.
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*Sent: *Saturday, February 13, 2016 8:02:30 AM
*Subject: *[AFMUG] Gigabit "cable validator" which validates
*through* a Gigabit PoE Injector?
Ok, everyone.....
I'm looking for one or more Gigabit Ethernet testers to test
product with which will actually test (signal-wise) a gigabit link
for spec conformance.... The catch? It has to work with a gigabit
injector in the middle, since it's really about testing the
injector's performance instead of a cable.
Most of the gigabit cable validators I've seen will completely
refuse to run the signal validation tests on a cable which doesn't
pass electrical continuity. Unfortunately, once you insert a
gigabit injector the cable electrically looks like all 4 pairs are
shorted, and there isn't any continuity to the far end.
Does anyone have a CAT5 cable tester which works *through* a
PoE? Or are willing to test theirs on a (unpowered) injector to
see what happens?
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