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- From: seifert@netcom.com (Rich Seifert)
- Subject: Re: Mixing RG58/U and RG-59 cable
- Message-ID: <b9fmsfn.seifert@netcom.com>
- Date: Wed, 22 Jul 92 22:07:38 GMT
- Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
- Summary: TRDRDR
- References: <2017@tivoli.UUCP> <1992Jul20.183415.19005@sci34hub.sci.com> <10992@rls.UUCP>
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- In article <10992@rls.UUCP>, randy@rls.UUCP (randy) writes:
- > How do you go about determining the length of thin line cable that
- > wasn't installed too terribly well? I have some cable run in a rambling
- > and looping fashion throughout the laboratories. A great deal of the
- > cable is behind walls or above ceilings and we need to know what it will
- > take to expand. Anyone?
- >
-
- The easiest way is to use a TDR (Time Domain Reflectometer). Cable
- installers typically use them to find cable breaks and such. If
- you disconnect the terminator at one end of the run, and hook up the
- TDR to the other end, it can tell you the length of line.
- Of course, the network is down while you are doing this.
-
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