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From: hjp@bambam.bedrock.com (Howard J. Postley)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Re: Cable testers
Summary: Cable Scanner is a nice little box
Message-ID: <153@bambam.bedrock.com>
Date: 14 Jun 89 05:20:48 GMT
References: <2021@wasatch.utah.edu>
Organization: Ideal Point, Inc.; Marina del Rey, CA
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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?
> 
> Thanks in advance for any beta -- Walt Haas  haas@cs.utah.edu  utah-cs!haas

I have a couple Cable Scanners. I think that they're a great deal. I also
have a full TDR which I hardly ever need anymore. The Cable Scanner and
Sniffer pretty much solve all of my problems. I don't know who M-Test's
real competition is but I have seen the box being OEMed by a bunch of people.
I'll be selling my TDR, in fact I think that we already did - it isn't
necessary anymore.

//hjp

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