Customer Reviews for Sperry Coaxial and UTP/STP Cable Tester System

Only the remote end has the led lights to show if wires have continuity, led's only show the pairs for cat wires and not individually, so only 4 led's and "not" 8, so the control part , the one with the on/off switch, should have the led lights to show if there are any errors, does not have a phone line cable connection

This device works very well for what I use it for. When I make custom length cat5 cable and 75ohm cable, I simply connect this device to both ends to check out the connections. It works excellent! I also use it to trace out already installed cable systems. I made my money back the first time I used it out of several times. Well worth the money. I highly recommend it!

4 years later and they still work, very basic tester. If you need to make sure that your pin outs are good then it'll work for you.

Malfunctioned. I returned it.

Right out of the box it failed. I checked battery and it had a full charge. Changed batteries with fresh ones to confirm. Wiggled the battery and got the red power led to light up for a little while. I got it to work somewhat but had to leave the battery back off and apply some pressure to the batteries. It just doesn't seem to make good contact with the batteries. I'll be returning this and getting another brand for sure. I need something reliable to troubleshoot with. And another thing... To save on money and paper they put a little piece of paper in there and tell you to go on line to read instructions assuming everyone has internet still. They claim they're being eco friendly. The online instructions weren't much bigger than the paper that told you to go on line were.

Fails to read on known good cables. worthless junk.

I recently purchased my second set of these (one to leave at my office and one for my tool kit). I have used these testers on HUNDREDS of different CAT5e and Coax cables. I HIGHLY recommend them. They do not eat batteries like my old set.

This is my second set of these testers. The first lasted almost 2 years until I dropped my tool bag and broke the main tester (battery powered unit). I have tested thousands of cables (Cat5e) as patch panel jumpers, office lines and uplinks between buildings and switches. The units have always been reliable and do not eat batteries like my previous units did. I have had little need to test RG59/RG6, but they have works the handful if times I needed to test continuity. Price is excellent and I highly recommend them.

Easy to use, sturdy shells and works well enough on network patch cables but the primary use for this tool for me.. was for testing RG-6 runs... and it won't do that. No reading on known good cables, no reading from the included calibration pieces. JUNK. Looks like there's a reason there's no mfr warranty provided.

This tester has been in my tool kit now for years and it has never failed. If other folks don't like it because it ran out of battery power they should try turning the ON/OFF switch to the OFF position. this is a great item.

I would not buy a tester to test wire map when they don't even know what the correct color code is !!!!!! Has the wrong color code right on the tester!!! WOW !!!!

Bought this to replace my old Klein tester that was run over by accident. After using this far less expensive Gardner tester on maybe 15 cables over a few days, the remote end's lights stopped working, rendering it totally useless. I actually disassembled it to see if a connection broke somehow but it's just a NIC port on a small PCB with nothing really to break. I'm just going to return it and get the Klein.

This helped me identify which coal cable in my attack lead to the wall jack in my family room. worked as advertised, decent price, but the build quailty doesn't seem overly impressive. I would say for the average Joe's usage around the house this will get it done. But if you are a pro and this will see very heavy usage, perhaps look elsewhere. For me, it was just what I needed!

I put in batteries and tested the day before going to job site on known good patch Network cables and all was well. I used it next day and it found a bad cable, but after repair, the bottom LED still did not light. I used some known good cables to test again and it became obvious the bottom LED no longer lights. I'll have to return and hope to find one of better quality