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LANTEK

®

LAN Cable Testers

Section 4: 

Cable Type Setup

Quick Reference Guide

Section 5:

FIELD CALIBRATION

27.  Press Shift & F4 or highlight 

Cable Type icon and press Enter.

28.  Highlight Twisted Pair Perm,

press Enter.

29.  Highlight desired Cable Test 

Standard, press Enter.

30.  Display will revert to Ready 

screen, Cable Type updated.

31.  Press F3 or highlight the 

Fi

eld 

Calibration icon, press Enter.                        

32.  Connect Remote Patchcord 

between the two units, press F1.

33.  Disconnect Remote Patchcord, 

connect Display Patchcord 
between units, press F1.

34.  Disconnect Display Patchcord 

from Remote Handset, Connect 
Remote Patchcord to Remote 
Handset, press F1 on Display 
Handset, press 

Autotest on 

Remote Handset

.

35. Calibration Complete, 

press Escape.

36.  Tester is now setup for CAT 6

Test Standard, to be saved in 
Compact Flash on Slot 1, the 
current job selected is IDEAL 
INDUSTRIES INC, Cable ID 
starts at “TEST 0001.”

IDEAL INDUSTRIES, INC.

Becker Place, Sycamore, IL 60178, USA / 815-895-5181 • 800-435-0705 in USA

International offices:

Australia • Brazil • Canada • China • Germany • India • Mexico • UK

For complete sales office contact information, visit us at: 

www.idealindustries.com

10/06

Printed in U.S.A.

Form No. 6510-30-0400 Rev.F
©2006 IDEAL INDUSTRIES, INC.

LANTEK

®

LAN Cable Testers

Quick Reference Guide

For more calibration procedures,
visit www.idealindustries.com

For more calibration procedures, 

visit www.idealindustries.com

Pass/Fail Reporting

Power-Up

Overall test result is a pass.

Overall test result is a fail.

Individual Autotest Results

All values pass with sufficient margin.

One or more values fail.

or      — Pass or fail by a small margin.

You are now ready to perform an AUTOTEST on the cable you have setup. 

Cable & Network Standard Reference Table

Supported

Cabling

Operation

Wire

Cabling

Network Application

Standards

Frequency

Used

Bandwidth

10BaseT

CAT3*

10 MHz

Tx on pair 1, 2

16MHz

Rx on pair 3,6

Rx on pair 3,6

100Base-Tx

CAT5*

80 MHz

Tx on pair 1,2

100MHz

Rx on pair 3,6

Rx on pair 3,6

1000Base-T**

CAT 5*/5E

80 MHz

Tx & Rx on all 4-pairs

100 MHz

(half duplex)

1000Base-TX

CAT 5E/6E

250 MHz

Tx & Rx on all 4-pairs 

250 MHz

(full duplex)

10GBase-T

CAT6A (draft)

500 MHz

Tx & Rx on all 4-pairs

500 MHz

*  The information for CAT3 & CAT5 is for reference only. They are both considered to be obsolete.

** To operate on Category 5/5e cable, 1000Base-T systems use complex and expensive noise cancellation circuitry and cost more money than 1000Base-Tx systems which require Category 6 cable.

Wiring Configuration

Figure 1

Wiring Configuration

Figure 2

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