LM35 LanMaster 35 Power and Link Tester

The right tool saves a lot of guessing when time counts. With this baby, you can be pretty sure layer one is good or needs to be fixed.It's a standard toner with four different tone patterns. That allows me to use my Fox 2 toner and the LanMaster 35 toner with different tone patterns to find cables with fewer trips to the jacks. Any toner probe will pick up the LanMaster analog tone. The carry case has room for the Psiber CT-15 probe, but it is an option purchased separately. Cool, but not that special.The link setting will identify live network jacks and display their speed. Once you have a link, the Port ID will blink the switch port activity LED to quickly find where the cable is plugged into. Nice time saver if someone did not do a good job labeling jacks and cables. BTW, Cisco switches only respond to the slow rate. My cheap Linksys switch does not care whether the rate is fast, medium or slow. If no link is found, you can run a pair test with the built in TDR. It returns each pair length (only 1-2, 3-6) and whether the pairs are open or shorted.The PoE test lets you know if power is available, displays voltage, resistance and wattage of the connection. Higher resistance would indicate a bad connection or punch down somewhere in the line. High resistance or intermittent PoE would be really irritating to troubleshoot without this type of tester.Only gripe is the LanMaster 35 unit only has a RJ45 plug for connections. If you do phone work, a regular four wire toner is needed for RJ11 and punch downs - like the Fox 2 toner. Of course at this price, you don't get full speed tests of the cables. Continuity, length and resistance are pretty good indicators of bad cable without pulling out the $5,000 certification tester.Nice, handy and cooler than the other tech's stuff.