And at 35m you would probably be fine with plain Cat5. Remember the system is specified for a full 100m run so as you back off the distance things get a whole bunch more forgiving.

That said I don't think you have been able to buy plain Cat5 cable for a very long time now. It's been all Cat5e for over a decade.

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Beaten by Mr Saffrons advice of £5.00 testers being available!

Edited by Rastus (Tue 17-May-16 16:12:24)

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Beaten by Mr Saffrons advice of £5.00 testers being available!

There are differences. The £5 tester just checks continuity 1-1, 2-2 &c whereas the more expensive will look for reversed and crossed pairs too.

And using the £5 tester, everything may have looked fine, in this case.

Edited by MHC (Tue 17-May-16 16:19:40)

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There are differences. The £5 tester just checks continuity 1-1, 2-2 &c whereas the more expensive will look for reversed and crossed pairs too.

And using the £5 tester, everything may have looked fine, in this case.

You're probably right, I was assuming all cheap testers were capable of performing all those tests as standard.

I can't remember how much I paid for my Velleman VTLAN3 about 2-3 years ago from eBay (UK) but I'm fairly certain it was under £10.

Just had a quick look and I can't find it on the UK site but it's still available on eBay.com only at a higher price than I paid, but it proves the point that it's not necessary to fork out over £70 for something which will probably only be used occasionally.

Any progress?

Hi,

Yes complete success thank you. I followed the link within the post and followed the 'B' plan and low and behold. Full speed.

I did post this I 'think' in response to the poster who put the link up but not sure how the forum works.
Very much appreciate your quick response. Had it dragged on I would have likely ended up hiring someone to 'fix' my erroor.
I write this sat in my lovely new office