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Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2003 11:15:19 -0500 (EST)
From: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
To: Filip djMedrzec Zyzniewski <lkml@filip.eu.org>
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On Tue, 31 Dec 2002, Filip djMedrzec Zyzniewski wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 30, 2002 at 09:22:54PM -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> 
> > I would hope a decent cable tester would test for effects at useful
> > frequency. The frequency of a battery is too low to reveal some problems.
> 
> "Frequency of a baterry"? What the hell is that? Baterry provides direct
> current, not alternating one... Tester provides it's own testing signals.

Clearly I need to add a smiley for the humour-impared.

The original post you clipped implied that all you needed was a pair of
RJ45 sockets and a battery, which would do continuity testing only.

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bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
  CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.

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