Jim Brown wrote:
If your eyes were good enough and you had a good magnifying glass, you
could, indeed, check for wiring errors. The assumption that the wiring
is satisfactory is NOT. There are, for example, installation- related
faults that can degrade data transmission -- sharp bends, damage to the
cable, lacing of the cable, etc. Data cable should not, for example, be
laced. Rather it should lie loose. There are a lot of reasons for this,
and I suspect some of the references cited in this thread will address them.
Bottom line -- there's a lot more to data cabling than meets the eye,
Thanks to everyone for the information - I for one have really learned
something from this.
and the precision test set really is required.
Maybe first we need a way to check if there really *is* any problem
affecting data transfer, and also to check if anything changes when we
hit the system with RF.
Are there software utilities that can monitor the data rates and levels
of retries, and show if the system is shifting into 'low gear'?
--
73 from Ian G3SEK 'In Practice' columnist for RadCom (RSGB)
http://www.ifwtech.co.uk/g3sek
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