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I just moved into a house with extensive structured wiring cat 5e and RG6 in each room. The Leviton structured media cabinet only had telephone punchdown bridges, so I got a bunch of Leviton Cat5e data/phone boards and started to identify, label and terminate each cable into a punch board.
Unfortunatley, one cable is totally dead and I'm not sure how / why. Interestingly enough I can hear a tone using a tone tester. But my Lan Tracker shows no lights on any of the 4 pairs of wire in the cable.
My question is, why would I hear a tone using the tone tester but get nuthin using the LAN Tracker? I have tried to re-cut the cable and repunch it to no avail. This is the only cable in the house that is dead.
"The tone generator only sends signals down a pair of cables." Not knowing anything at all about using a tone generator, I'm curious if the pair used by a tone generator is fixed or if they allow specifying which pair to test? Certainly would make isolating the bad pair(s) easier if you could do that. – irrational John – 2010-07-21T17:16:48.003