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SeanDotson
PostPosted: Mon Nov 29, 2010 5:58 pm 
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In our new building there are RJ45 (CAT5) outlets all around. They all terminate in a switch room into a patch panel (which looks like a switch or hub).

Problem is nothing is labeled. I need a cheap tool to plug into one end at the outlet (in the room) and then the other in the patch panel (server room) and see which ones match up.

I keep finding tools that can test individual wires but nothing with two plugs (one on each tool).

Would be nice for it to be phone lines as well.

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PostPosted: Mon Nov 29, 2010 6:13 pm 
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You can use 2 router/hub/switch. Plug the cable into the router port, with power to the router of course. Then plug the cable in switch room into another powered switch/hub. If it lights up, you got the right cable. You can use a netbook/notebook also. As long as there is a cable connection, the switch will have led on for the port.
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PostPosted: Mon Nov 29, 2010 7:07 pm 
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Great idea. Thanks!

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Hi

this one is nice tool....
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0000AZK08/ref=pd_lpo_k2_dp_sr_1?pf_rd_p=1278548962&pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe-1&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_i=B000F786M2&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=1N4NHT2272A1GD1G3MV5

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Hi Sean,

I use one of these - really cheap on ebay:

http://tinyurl.com/28wlcfy

They work really well.

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PostPosted: Mon Dec 13, 2010 12:45 pm 
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Gareth_k wrote:
Hi Sean,

I use one of these - really cheap on ebay:

http://tinyurl.com/28wlcfy

They work really well.

Gareth


$1.. that outrageous! ;)

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You're not joking! - mine came from Hong Kong & including Postage was about

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I got a tool at Home Depot - plug in one module with a battery in it to the RJ45 and then the other half of the tool will "Snif" the signal at the other end of the cable. I used it to label all my cables.

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RonC wrote:
I got a tool at Home Depot - plug in one module with a battery in it to the RJ45 and then the other half of the tool will "Snif" the signal at the other end of the cable. I used it to label all my cables.


How Much was that tool?

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Gareth_k wrote:
How Much was that tool?


No recollection but if I bought it, it must have been low enough in price. :lol:

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