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From: rsmith@vms.macc.wisc.edu (Rusty Smith, MACC)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Re: Cable testers
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Date: 13 Jun 89 13:49:18 GMT
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In article <2021@wasatch.utah.edu>, haas@wasatch.utah.edu (Walt Haas) writes...

>I'm shopping for a good way to test coax and twisted pair cables used in
>Ethernet, Arcnet and broadband.................. 

>				  In particular I'm looking at a thing
>called a Cable Scanner built by a company called M-Test.  Does anybody in
>netland have one of these?  Who are their competitors?  What percentage of
>problems can be solved this way, vs. what percentage need the full TDR
>treatment?
> 

If this is the Cable Scanner built by MicroTest, I saw their sales 
brochures and it looked nice. Just before this we recieved a 3 Com
Lan Scanner. It is similar in size to the Cable Scanner. Unfortunately
it arrived brain damaged and kept going back to the main menu in the
middle of testing cable. We are waiting for the replacement. We wanted
something more portable than a regular TDR that would test broadband
cables, thick and thin ethernet as well as twisted pair ethernet.
For a $1000 this looked like the solution, but we won't know for a 
while yet.

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