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snifferdog
09-08-2006, 09:25 PM
Rewiring my house, asked the sparky to run a pair of cat5 cables from every room in the house to a cubby hole upstairs where I was going to put all manor of clever techie things, via a patch panel. He labeled the end of the cat5 cable in each room. . . but not in the cupboard upstairs... Any ideas how I can quickly identify which is which (there are 18 pairs)

thebighippo
09-08-2006, 10:22 PM
This won;t be very quick but it will work.
Go to each room in turn and short out a pair. Go to the cupboard with a meter and find the shorted pair. Label the cable and repeat.

Good luck

Gazer
15-08-2006, 10:17 AM
lol make the ends off and get yourself a cat5 tester they are only around £9 and if you got 18 cat5 cables it will be handy for the future.

snifferdog
16-08-2006, 12:47 AM
I was hoping there might have been an easier way, guess I'll have to get testing.

broony2005
16-08-2006, 11:43 PM
I was hoping there might have been an easier way, guess I'll have to get testing.

a swift kick in the balls it what is needed for the spark.

why only lable one end ????

5 Inch
02-10-2006, 06:30 PM
can get cable tracers too, sends a tone down a pair and you wave a wand thing near the cables to find that one.

There pretty handy but might be overkill if your only gonna use it once