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Re: Network Test Equipment


Spending $200-$300 for both tools is hardly a sneeze in the budget compared to the (billable) time it would cost you to blindly plug-n-pray mapping. The $7k flukes are rarely worth it -- you can figure out 99% of your job with the other two tools, and save the $6500 for running fresh cat6 drops to replace anything that takes more than 15 minutes to figure out.

Eh, even new cable runs aren't always installed correctly. Whether you use Cat6 or Cat3 cable and connectors doesn't mean anything if you can't tell that what you paid for in the plant isn't capable of delivering its specifications. So I'd knock your 99% down to about 75%... still way better than nothing, but not so close to ideal as you're suggesting.

You can rent the high-end Fluke stuff for a week from a bunch of places for not much more than the cost of a good set of tone/trace/continuity testers. We use: http://www.trs-rentelco.com/

If you have only a one-time need, or very infrequent, it's a very economical way to get all the functions of the good stuff without needing to own them.
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