00:00RJ45 Cable Testers Every Network Engineer Needs Voice Over Script
00:05If you've ever spent 20 minutes staring at a patch panel, wondering which cable is actually dead, this one's for
00:10you.
00:11Today I'm going through the best deals on RJ45 Cable Testers Every Network Engineer Needs 5 of them,
00:17from a $6 pocket tester to a full fiber capable unit.
00:21Let's get into it.
00:23First up, the Kebidumi ILAN Network Cable Tester, and honestly this is the one I'd hand to a new tech.
00:30It takes Cat 5 and Cat 6, UTP or SCP, and it's a real line finder, you clip the tone
00:35generator on one end,
00:36walk to the other, and trace the wire by sound instead of guessing.
00:40It'll also diagnose distance issues in shorts, so you're not swapping cables blindly.
00:45Price is $16.22, with 4,809 sold and a 4.9 rating.
00:52For the money, it covers 90% of what most people actually need day-to-day.
00:57Next, the Amcom Network Cable Tester, $6.83, 4,219 sold, 4.9 stars.
01:05This is the cheap one you buy two of.
01:08It handles Cat 5e, Cat 6, Cat 6a and Cat 7, plus the RJ45 8P8C and RJ11 telephone jacks,
01:16and it does continuity testing so you can confirm pin-by-pin whether a run is good.
01:20It also checks pull presence on the line, which saves a lot of head-scratching when a camera won't
01:25come up. Keep one in your bag and one in the van. At under $7, it pays for itself the
01:32first time it
01:32saves you a callback. Third is the Fnirsi LPM10A, and this is where things get serious, $47.99,
01:40sold, 4,195 sold, 4.8 rating. The big feature here is length measurement.
01:47You plug into a run and it tells you roughly how many meters of cable you're dealing with,
01:52which is gold when you're chasing a break somewhere and a long hallway drop.
01:56Add wire tracing, po-testing, and a port flash mode that lights up the switch port you're plugged into,
02:01and you've got a genuinely multifunction tool. If you're doing installs rather than just repairs,
02:06this is the sweet spot. Fourth, the Noiafa NF8508, $85.69, $3,463 sold, 4.9 rating.
02:17This one's for the folks who work in mixed environments, because it does copper and fiber.
02:22It's a network cable tester and a wire tracer, but it also packs an optical power meter,
02:27so you can verify fiber link budgets without dragging a separate meter out of the truck.
02:32It also tests PO and has an LCD readout.
02:36Yes, it's the priciest tool here, but if you touch fiber at all, that combined function alone justifies it.
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