On June 25, 2016 at 21:38, Ernie Gilman said...
buzz, are you saying that nothing short of that tool would give me any useful information by which I might choose to use that cabling or not to use it?
A tool such as this will quickly give a clear diagnosis of the situation.
In a way this is similar to throwing an amplifier on to a test bench. Sure, I could hook up a pair of speakers to see if the amplifier makes noise, but this is a very imprecise test. On the test bench I can very quickly check everything.
It all depends on how quickly you need to work and the confidence you need to have in the robustness of the network.
