DataShark Network Cable Tester - Cable Mapper, Check Continuity - Test Patch Cords or Installed Cable Runs

This target has saved me some time and trouble. I made a few cat 5e cables and used this to test them. Of course I mucks up one of the cables and this saved me the time of using the cable and then ending up troubleshooting.

Received as advertised...big help in troubleshooting a neighbors network installation.

For the price, I expected to have issues with the product. I recently moved into a newly constructed home and got the pre-wire whole house ethernet option, out of the 7 drops, only 1 drop was installed correctly. The Paladin Tool helped me find quickly find the faulty installation rather then plugging in a laptop to verify connectivity. I would definitely would recommend this tool, especially that for this price.

The case could be better. It does not hold the test unit and small test link jumpers. The unit runs through a test light sequence, each corresponding to a wire checked. Once you know the sequence you can see if a light is not energized, equating to an issue in the cable. For a basic and inexpensive tool it does well.

Our teams really like them and found them handy to have in their kits.

Meter did not work. Wouldnt even test the sample cables provided with the product.

Love it. I use it every time I make up a cable and it has definitely paid off, for both new cables and troubleshooting.

I used it to test my cable connection. The tester shows that everything is fine, whilst in real life the connection is not strong enough to pass through data.

Horrible product do not buy

Bought this to test Cat5 connectors on a whole-house stereo installation. Ive left it to chance before and had a couple of bad connectors that resulted in unreliable operation of the keypads. This takes the guess work out of the project - you might be surprised how many of the male Cat5 connectors are bad - I had to replace 3 of 24 which would have resulted in headaches down the road when access was much more difficult. I also discovered a damaged length of Cat5 cable that must have been crushed and was causing intermittent shorts. For the small investment, this is a fantastic tool.