How Do You Make A Homemade Network Cable Tester?
Network cable testers are basically a battery and several lights, with the network cable itself providing the current path. If the cable is good, the bulbs will illuminate. Making one of these at home can take the average person about fifteen minutes. Cut the working network cable so that there is more than a foot of cable to each capped end. The clear adapter caps will allow it to be plugged into a networking socket, and they can be for CAT-3, CAT-5 or any variant. Strip the wires on both of the working network cable’s cut ends, and separate the wires by color. There should be two types for each color, one solid and one striped. These will serve as the positive and negative leads for the light bulbs. Connect the ends of one stripped cable to each of the light bulbs, using the solid wire for the positive terminal. There should be half as many bulbs connected to the cable than wires in the cable; if there are eight strands in the cable, there should be four lights. If the desired tester
