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Toner Issue

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thedocta45

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Just picked up a toner to identify some missing/mislabeled/unlabeled cables.
Was going great until I plugged into one that I can't pin down.
Going into the server room the toner goes nuts even on the isolate setting giving me high signal on multiple cables.

Any ideas what could be causing this?

I am going with someone doing the wiring messed up this drop or they are using it for something else that is splitting the signal.
 
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does your toner tone on all pairs, or just one pair?

I work in telco, and I always only use one pair just for this reason. It's a lot easier to find.

Put it on the green pair and see if where it goes.

Also, are there any phone drops in the room? If you tone on the blue or orange pair and it goes everywhere, most likely it is/was a phone drop.
 
It tones on all pairs, but I have a two pair cable I can try.

No rj11 for the phones, all rj45 at this office.

The jack is supposed to connect to our IPO but I can't get phone to turn up on it.

Edit: No two pair on hand will have to make one tonight.
 
Make? What kind of toner do you have?

All the toners I have gotten in the past (and use now) have a selectable pin-out and a bed of nails.

I see RJ-45 Jacks used for phone all the time, that's why AT&T wires all their RJ-45 "a" because it maintains blue pair is center pair (line 1) and orange pair is pair 2 (line 2).
 
Its one of the Fluke IntelliPro 200s.

From what I have been able to see the people who did the wiring came out a while ago to redo all the cabling for the room.

I don't think we have anything that hooks into the 66 blocks so I doubt its strictly an analog line. I don't know why they would have wired/rewired it as an analog line.

When I test for service I get a red light on the Phone 1 led.

On all other drops i can tone out I get at least a green no continuity or Auto-MDIX indication if the drop is plugged to the switches.
 
thedocta45 said:
Just picked up a toner to identify some missing/mislabeled/unlabeled cables.
Was going great until I plugged into one that I can't pin down.
Going into the server room the toner goes nuts even on the isolate setting giving me high signal on multiple cables.

Any ideas what could be causing this?

I am going with someone doing the wiring messed up this drop or they are using it for something else that is splitting the signal.
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is the wire concealed ? or can you hunt it down and perhaps see what direction it is going in ?

I dealt with this last week at a side job, the wire was actually going the opposite way, and i found it, some one unplugged a switch that they didn't know what it was for :(
 
The wire gets bundled up and goes into the floor inside the base of a conference table.

At that point I just lose the signal.

I might have the guys that did the wiring come back out as after going over the invoices they were supposed to supply us with a wiring diagram that was never provided.

That and now the Creston system that was installed is not outputing video from our video conference system.
Thank god for mobile units.
 
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