After discovering that a single Cat5 cable was bottlenecking some devices on my network to 90 Mbps while the rest of my setup ran at gigabit speeds, I went deep into learning what actually makes one ...

As cable testing standards evolve, installers must keep up with the changes or face extinction. The demand for faster, more powerful local area networks (LANs) has led to the design of networks that ...

I've just run two new CAT6 cables in my house and I'm having problems with my TiVo. However, I'm trying to narrow down the problem by making sure that the cables are good. My switch is a Dell ...

The RFA-4218-20 cable tester checks CAT5 and 5E cables for conditions such as shorts, opens, reversed pairs, and crossed pairs. It handles both straight and crossover cables for UTP, STP, 10/10-MHz ...