have a RJ45 run between floors, the cable tests 'pass' in RJ45 mode (all 4 pairs lights on), but I don't get a tone when on toner and the wand. (I tested with patch cables and they work fine). what can it be?
Unless you only need to track wires about 50 feet spend some money and buy something different.
This toner is only good for tracking a wire for about fifty feet and then the signal gets so weak its useless. I have not tried the cable tester on it yet.
I purchased the toner to trace a number of wires through the house, specifically Coaxial. Unfortunately the signal is weak and the receiver picks up a lot of noise making it not useful beyond ~4ft.
Otherwise excellent accessories including a number of adapters. Would be nice to have a double RJ45 and phone jack to help test sockets.
I recently purchased this product and it came in a timely manner. After installing the included batteries I tested the tracer function. As the new IT Manager for my company I have been trying to organize things that the previous manager did not take the time to do. With 3 locations I have 3 racks with 2 routers and 2 switches that I need to label. This product has made this daunting task a heck of a lot easier.
PROS: Functional, Light Weight, Gets the job done.
Definitely lower quality that I expect for the money. It seems durable, but after 14 months, the RJ45 tester is useless.
PROS: The tone generator portion & tracer work well.
CONS: The RJ-45 tester stopped working after about 14 months of occasional use. It always shows a fault on the 5-6 pair. I bet I re-made 5 cables before realizing the tester was bad!
I have spent thousands of dollars with monoprice at the company I am at and never have I been let down by a product like I was with this one.
PROS: Most the features besides the one I wanted seemed to work but did not really spend much time testing.
CONS: Has a BNC connection so I bought to tone some RG6. I put a 6" piece of RG6 on it to be able to connect it to the wall jack and I could barely hear the tone at the end of that small piece. If you moved the product around sometimes it would get louder but would never stay that way. Tried plugging it into a run that was just over 10ft long and I could not hear the tone at the end.
PROS: It's a great all around piece, very versatile and covers a lot of ground.
CONS: When checking network cables it checks in pairs, therefor if you have a reversed pair it won't show up as bad because it only checks continuity of the pairs, it will tell you if your crossed though.
For the price paid compared to other devices, this did the job and I would buy it again.
PROS: Easy to use I and was able to trace and test multiple RJ45 cables that were installed in walls with runs varying from 30 to 100 '
CONS: Tone can be very faint over longer cable lengths, a fair amount of static can override the tone. You need to listen carefully on the longer runs.
Much easier to use than the device it's replacing. Certainly does everything I need it to do, which is test and tone RJ45 cables.
My order went missing in delivery. When I contacted Monoprice about it, they shipped a new one immediately. Less than 24 hours after talking to them, I had a new unit on my desk. Unbelievably fantastic service.
PROS: Does exactly what it promises to do. Easy to use. Great price.
