Black Box 1000' CAT6A 650MHz Solid Bulk Cable F/UTP CMP Yellow

In this module I'm going to show you how to certify a category 6a patch cord correctly. I'm also going to show you how it's done incorrectly. So, on my DTX here, I have the two channel adapters. This is what ships with the DTX CableAnalyzer. And I've connected my cat6 patch cord from the main to the remote. My test limit has been selected as TIA Cat6a channel. I'm good to go. Let's hit that TEST key. Now, while it's running, let me explain why this is wrong. Whenever you do a channel management, the connection to the test equipment is ignored. That's a requirement of the standard. So this rj45 plug here that were interested in while it's being terminated, it's going to be excluded from the measurement. And when we look at the result, we see that the near-end crosstalk margin is 18.1 dB, worst case, which is suspiciously high. Typically, with patch cords we're talking single-digit number