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From: haas@wasatch.utah.edu (Walt Haas)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Cable testers
Message-ID: <2021@wasatch.utah.edu>
Date: 12 Jun 89 22:32:25 GMT
Organization: University of Utah CS Dept
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I'm shopping for a good way to test coax and twisted pair cables used in
Ethernet, Arcnet and broadband.  One way would be to spend a lot of money for
a large, heavy TDR that would give me lots of information.  But there are now
on the market units that send a pulse down the cable and tell you on a little
display whether a reflection came back and whether it represents a short or
open.  This gives you some information, less than a TDR would give you but
maybe enough to solve most problems.  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