Review on Enhanced Efficiency with Triplett Brothers RWC1000K2 Verifier Printable by Alex Jones

Let me first say that I really liked this tester as at this price we could keep it in trucks as a backup. With that said, here's what we found. In the real world portion of the tester, things feel weird from the start. In the "Real World" test, the cable shows a "PASS" test result if the data flow is sufficient even with an open pair. This part could have been bypassed as there is a pair matching feature and we could also see and fix the open pair, but the worst was yet to come. Here are the results of our real-world performance test. The construction was carried out by our boys over 15 years ago. All wiring in Cat 5e walls with Leviton jacks. All connection cables in this test were category 6, all switch ports and network cards were gigabit. The RWC scanner has certified all ports and cables (including legacy Category 5e cables in the walls) as Category 6 and above 1Gbps. We used iPerf to test how much data we can actually transfer over the cable. The average iPerf result was 552 Mbps, which is in line with what we saw on our more expensive testers. This pretty much refutes the RWC's claim that we can certify this place as Gigabit infrastructure. The next step was to take wall cables out of the equation to ensure the computers they were using could actually transfer the amount of data RWC specified. the cable holds. After removing the wall wiring from the equation and going straight to the switch with Cat 6 cabling, the average was 915 Mbps. This is acceptable and plausible reading as we are still dealing with the overhead of a network switch and patch cords. However, this tells us that we can call the Cat 5e wall wiring test a failure. It will not allow 1Gbps bandwidth in any way. From there I thought I'd go one step further and take the switch out of the equation. This switch worked very well compared to using a crossover cable. The differences were actually minor, but also confirmed that the test computers were able to transfer data and that the gigabit-certified RWC-certified wall wiring was to blame and the RWC test failed. To be honest I opened a ticket with the manufacturer to see if there might be a reason or another way to do the test as I wanted to give the tester every opportunity. I outlined the test above and presented it in the ticket. The company's response was no response at all. If you just want to make sure a few wires are punched correctly, you can use this tester. However, if that is all you need, you can buy a better tester to make it cheaper. On the other hand, if you want to "certify" the cable and you care about your name, you won't include it in these test results. "Certification" passes / does not pass. There is no room for ambiguity here. It either matches the speed you are certifying or it doesn't. 999 Mbit/s is not 1 gigabit. We're sticking with Fluke. Yes they are expensive but IMO because they are worth it. One more thing. As another reviewer wrote, the description is not correct. The tester doesn't come with the certification stickers, the notepad they talk about so much in their videos, the software CD, or the training DVD. I wish I had seen this previous review before purchasing but that is why at Revain we only buy Prime which is sold/run by Revain. Revain made it easy to send back a tester. Hope this helps someone else.