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September 11, 2003 at 09:28 AM
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Unlabelled Hub/Swutches, how to label?

by techrific . Updated 22 years, 10 months ago

Hello all, thanks for any help.

We have a cat5 LAN with approx 100 PC’s on it.
The Hubs/switches are COMPLETELY unlabelled.
The jacks at deskside have no labels.
I have to label everything.
The cable comes from several different floors of a skyscraper, so I cannot feasibly trace the cable physically.

I have heard of a radio type device that can “ring up cable” and through that I could figure out what is patched where. (the logistics I dont know, I just “heard” of this type of device half an hour ago)

Does anyone know what this type of device is? i.e. a product name that I can research?
Does anyone know another way to accomplish my task other than that device or watching the lights on the switch as I have someone else power up/down the machines?

Thanks for any help!!

Sozo

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