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From: John Bradford <john@grabjohn.com>
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Subject: Re: OT: Which Gigabit ethernet card?
To: davidsen@tmr.com (Bill Davidsen)
Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2003 16:39:22 +0000 (GMT)
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> > > 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.

Which is exactly what was *required* - we were talking about
identifying crossover and non-crossover cables, which is why I
suggested the battery and LED in a spare wallplate solution, which
works perfectly.

:-)

John.
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