CAT5e Certfiers

[DRGL]

Hi,can anyone point me in the direction of a cheap CAT5e certifier(need print out reports) everything seems to be $5K>!! I think these people have one coming out soon :-

http://www.test-um.com/testum/home.asp

anyone know anything about it/them? I can't justify $$$$$ to give someone a certificate to prove their cable is CAT5e complient(we only install a few points now & then) Thanks for any help/info.PS,wouldn't it be nice if there was an adaptor for a laptop to do this kind of thing?!

 

[DRGL]

i meant certifiers!

 

[dhnl]

http://www.flukenetworks.com

 

[franklin97355]

Test-um is a good company but what they have is not for certification. Equipment to certify cable must be calibrated at the factory and itself carry a certification of accuracy.

 

[3rc]

If it is for Cat5 only I'd try E-Bay ,Pentascanners around $1000.

 

[DRGL]

Thanks for the replys guy's,I'll have a look into Petascanners,Test-Um have a certifier for release this summer i believe?? Sadly Fluke are way too expensive for the workload we have at the moment

 

[Jtodd]

Also look on ebay for a Fluke DSP-100. It's only a Cat5 (not Cat5e). But they may be fairly cheep at this point as well. I think there was an intermediate model now, like the DSP-2000. Can't remember, I was a Microtest person at that point in time. Pentascanner and OmniScanner!

Justin T. Clausen
Physical Layer Implementation
California State University, Monterey Bay