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In one wall there is a mass of network cable, all around the room there are wall sockets. Isnt there are tool, box and a wand/beeper thing to identify a single wire with a wall plug?
If you know what i mean.....
Hmmm, rather like trying to trace a single strand of spaghetti. You could colour-code 'em, wrap a piece of different-coloured electrical tape around each cable at intervals, and then the same colour right next to the plug.
ok ...I'll bite...Whats it called? course since my Fedora install has a virus called a Grub, and since i was planing on taking it to work and set it up as a server (take a shot at being the Hero) i wont be needing it anytime soon, But i would like to know.
I've used a unit similar to the one Greg found and it was invaluable for tracing phone & network cables. I was able to hear the tone from cables buried in walls, etc.
We use those sounders to trace bundled irrigation wire over long distances. Work great unless you have bleed over or a short directly in the bundle. If you already have a multimeter and it's in a small enough room run a length of wire to the outlet you want to find the wire for and do a continuity test to find the correct wire back at the master panel. Or if your creative send a low voltage charge through the outlet wire like a nine volt battery (depends on size of room and length & size of wire for power supply) and test for power at the wire in the master panel. Kind of strange they weren't color coded and marked.
Any good "sniffer" can help. If the cables are all in a wad, with no identifiers (and this is strictly MY way of dealing with it), it would fall on the shoulders of whomever ran the cables. "Cable rats" usually mark the runs at both ends. Sounds like a "home-made" LAN... Bad ju-ju! Is there a panel and switch/hub in this mess? Or is everything terminated with RJ-45 ends? Sounds like a nightmare-in-waiting to me...
...that reminds me: I gotta go out and get another gross of 8P8C cable ends. /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/wink.gif
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