As cable testing standards evolve, installers must keep up with the changes or face extinction. The demand for faster, more powerful local area networks (LANs) has led to the design of networks that ...

Ethernet cables are vital in getting your devices connected to the internet. Although it may sometimes be a source of many computer and network-related issues, it is still needed. You can't remove the ...

Network testers are ideal for IDing bad cabling, helping to troubleshoot network issues, estimating cable lengths and determining cable rates. These tools from Fluke Networks, NETSCOUT, and SignalTEK ...

Cable and connector faults arerelatively common in LANs (local-area networks). You can use the circuitin Figure 1 to test straight- or cross-link10BaseT, 100BaseT, or gigabit ...

Sure, you can buy a cable tester, but what fun is that? [Ashish] posted a nice looking cable tester that you can build with or without an onboard Arduino. If you don’t use an Arduino, the project uses ...

We were recently perusing facebook and came across an article written and shared by our friends over at Blue Jeans Cable, entitled, “Is Your Cat 6 Cable a Dog?”. We were pretty shocked to discover ...