I think you need to get one of those UTP cable testers. They not only test for continuity but also mismatched pairs, length, etc. The one we are using has LCD panel showing line status and cost about 18T. Nel On Fri, 10 Mar 2000, Federico Sevilla III wrote: > On Thu, 9 Mar 2000 at 21:20, Horatio B. Bogbindero wrote: > >in the poor world of the academe, we just get a socket and short the > >stripped colored wire with its matching plain colored wire on one end. > >and i use a standard voltmeter on the other. simple. elegant and cheap. > > In the poor world of our family business (hehehe), I made two patch > cables, each with one side RJ-45, one side stripped. Then I got a > multi-tester, and set it to its weakest (6 ohms I think). Then I did two > tests. One made sure that there were no shortages in the links, so I had > both sides open and then did tests where I had positive on one wire, then > the negative passed through each of the others. Okay, line clean. > > Then I did line continuity tests where I close each pair (short orange > with orange white, and so on), then at the end, I make sure that only > orange and orange white produce the right pair for a connection, or only > brown and white brown (meaning, not orange and white brown, or orange and > blue). > > My lines passed this improvised test I made. Are the NIC's fooling me, or > is my test not rigorous enough? > > I also checked my patch cables by using them to connect a computer > directly to the hub. They work. But two patch cables plus line going > through RJ-45 socket ... fails. And ONLY with two connections! The rest > work fine as long as I've got them at 10Mbps. I still haven't solved my > 100Mbps problem, though. I'll be trying to fix the speed later, following > Ronneil Camara's advise. > > Anyone got ideas, or better yet, anyone got a line tester to lend? Hehehe. > Unfortunately, I don't have enough cabling jobs to merit an expensive > tester. > > Thanks again to everybody! :-) > > -+[ Jijo Sevilla ]+- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > - > Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph > To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > - Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
