Check that you are wiring both ends to the same standard - A or B not one of each - It does pays to check the obvious somes times(says he who spend 2 hours fault finding a blown fuse)
Maurice > -----Original Message----- > From: Nick Rout [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, 2 March 2010 9:49 p.m. > To: [email protected] > Subject: cable testing? > > > I have run a couple of cat5e cables and I am trying to terminate them, > unsuccessfully at present. > > Will a cable tester help me? I suspect that each time I put a plug on > the end one or more of the wires is in the wrong place, or not quite > long enough to make the connection. Coupled with this I am only 90% > sure which cable end is which at the switch end (ie the centre of the > star), having failed to mark them. > > Is there some sort of cable tester that can, eg, tell me what wires > are right and what are wrong, and which end of the cable is wired > wrong? > > And, heres the hit, can someone in ChCh lend me one? > > Desperate and frustrated in Linwood. > > N
