Need recommendation for a network toner

I have some mislabeled wall jacks that I'm having a hard time locating. I searched newegg and CDW for network toners to try to find these jacks on the punch panels, or in a switch...but there are several, and I dont see any reviews. Anyone have personal experience with one they would recommend?

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cyberguypr

Your friend for reviews is Amazon.com: network toner

I've used Greenlee and Fluke and both have been flawless.

demonfurbie

Byte Brothers Pocket Cat RJ45/Coax Tester CTX200 - Cyberguys.com

i see the cable runners in the area use that one often and have no issues with it

SteveO86

SolarWinds LANSurveyor might be able to identify the computer on the other of the Switch power (if it's live).. They offer a trial version you can test with it only requires SNMP be configured on the switch.

The toner I have in the office is from triplett, never really had any problems with it and it does it's job, but it's just a basic no special readings or anything like a fluke.

IRONMONKUS

This is what I use at work and I like it. It's a basic tone generator, but you can use it to plug straight into a wall jack with, plug an Ethernet cable into the toner, and then you select which wire pair to send the tone down.

What I would suggest though is if you don't already have a cable tester, maybe looking into a combo piece of equipment that is a tone generator and cable tester. I have separate equipment, so I'd have to read reviews about those.

arwes

This is what I've got at the office, and it works great:

Newegg.com - JDSU KP101 Buttie Test Set

Plug the tone generator in the port, then hunt around the patch panel for the tone. Did plenty of that when we evicted some tenants (for more space) and reactivated some ports that were still in there.

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