Fluke LinkIQ Review and Demo 2021

[@BFClayto]

Very good video. We run PoE on our ENET capable microwave radios, and for cable verification these are required. As well in inside plant operations, connectivity to switches, routers, etc, these are a good tool for install, t-shooting and for validation. Plus you get the Fluke support and access to training. Thanks, Fluke.

[@NetworkAdvisor]

Right? I think it’s a wonderful tool for those who can afford it. For enterprise level orgs, it would be a no-brainer. Thanks for commenting 😊

[@AK-IT]

Is there LinkIQ specific training?

[@TheCellPhoneGeek]

This works great for our remote locations. We have the sites carry one of these then we can walk any use through to tell us the port info.

[@NetworkAdvisor]

Right? I think it a very efficient and easy-button use case. Thanks for sharing. ☺

[@jerome6555]

Great Video. For my understanding , Cat6 cable can support 10Gig within 180 ft. As the cable may have been coiled up too tight that your mentioned in the Video for Cat6a cable. Could it be the same scenario that Cat6 cable not able to justify 10Gig ?

[@NetworkAdvisor]

It’s not a bad hypothesis. I’m no RF expert, but I do know that coiled cables produce inductance. Moreover, the cable would be self-inflicting its own cross-talk back on itself. Neat experiment if I had the time. 🤔 Thanks for the comments! 😊

[@jerome6555]

@@NetworkAdvisor Great thanks. Looking forward for another Cat6 cable test (LinkIQ).

[@BannedOnMain]

In cable installations we specifically do not use coiled service loops for this reason. Often you would see a figure 8 to help diminish cross talk

[@johnnyvegas2015]

Thanks, it was helpful...😀

[@NetworkAdvisor]

YW. Thanks for watching 😊

[@nicsonrodriguresbarbosa1662]

The best video ever. Thank you.

[@NetworkAdvisor]

Wow, thanks! 😃

[@manuelapazahurtado-chocoro6517]

Excelente, quiero saber si con este dispositivo puedo test un patch cord rj45 , de 3 metros x ejemplo, es posible ? Que opere como un test simple también?

[@techreviewsau]

At 7.40: The Remote Office. You're seriously going to send a $3000 (AUD) piece of equipment to a Remote Site for them to use for testing? By Courier or Mail? Yeah, right... Keep dreaming. Who in their right mind would do that! And until only just in the last few weeks, it couldn't even pull down an IP Address during AutoTest - something so BASIC that even a $130 (AUD) Network Tester with a colour LCD screen can do!

[@NetworkAdvisor]

Hi Brad. Thanks for watching and taking the time to comment. Your point is valid, from a certain perspective (SMB level). But at the Enterprise level, a senior level IT director wouldn’t give it another thought. Even with the risk of loss (and I am sure it would be insured), if it meant she didn’t have to dispacth one of her staff to travel to site, then it’s a huge savings!

[@Henry_Jones]

Too expensive. Youre basically paying for a tool that can officially validate standards. Sure on the box it says IEEE bla bla bla but are you meeting that standard aftet installation is complete? Thats where this tool comes in. I can see wiring contractors using this but for a network admin like myself I can get by with my tone/probe kit, putty, and network cable tester.

[@psychofruit]

Instantly knowing which switch and port the drop goes to as well as VLAN is worth the price. Don't even need to tone anymore when things aren't labeled right. We just bought one and it's really cool

[@baara100]

​@Michael Firmani is it worth it. Im about to get one

[@innovatecoin9990]

Hey guys hate to break it to ya but the NetAlly LinkSprinter does the VLan Tag info as well as switch port as well, the LinkIQ excels at digging information on the wiring and POE capabilities

[@Henry_Jones]

@@innovatecoin9990 im in-house so i can get that all off the switch.

[@rpsmith]

Too expensive and it doesn't appear that it can be remotely controlled.

[@NetworkAdvisor]

I agree, it's not cheap. But, in my opinion the value (time/labor/vendor) savings is HUGE. When I used to run repair tickets for the Unilever campus in Shelton CT, this could have saved me hours and hours of walking!

[@rpsmith]

@@NetworkAdvisor -- Don't get me wrong, if I had a company behind me paying the bills, I would have one. Also, for that price I want to be able to connect it to Wi-Fi and remote control it. That way I could get any volunteer to help me troubleshoot a problem.

[@NetworkAdvisor]

Right. I think this tool makes the most economic sense for an IT director who has a budget. The ROI on the spend would be quick because lesser qualified people (jr IT staff) could solve problems faster. But as a independent field tech (contractor) this might be out of my budget range. 😊

[@itluis2009]

Agree

[@itnearu]

I just add a surcharge to my bill for use of the diagnostic device explaining it saves hours of time compared to a cheap cable tester. No-one has complained, yet. Corporate clients, even small business prefer saving time to worrying about a small cost.

[@mohammadyusofsalleh9544]

DSX cant do this , but the price of the machine very damn high

[@NetworkAdvisor]

It definitely is a pricey instrument but I assume the target market.for such equipment is corporate IT depts or mid-sized network and AV installation companies. Thanks for commenting. 🙂

[@JojoSLF]

... warum muss man beim sprechen die stimme immer so hochziehen ... ???

[@NetworkAdvisor]

Hört sich an, als würde ich schreien? Vielleicht ist es meine "Lehrerstimme".😆

[@JojoSLF]

@@NetworkAdvisor ist eben schwer lange da zuzuhören ...

[@NetworkAdvisor]

äh okay. das ist eine gute rückmeldung. Dankeschön😊

[@2loco]

You can turn the bloody volume down you know right?

[@JojoSLF]

@@2loco mit "hochziehen" meine ich die frequenz anheben nicht die lautstärke :-) google hat eben immernoch probleme mit "dialekten" 🙂

[@lowvoltagedude7837]

😯

[@eagle2742]

Cable tester tool

[@itluis2009]

Dude way overpriced for what it does Don’t even have a sfp port

[@NetworkAdvisor]

I agree 2k might be a lot for a small field tech co. But Its all relative, imo. If I was the IT director for a multi-site, geographically dispersed organization I wouldn’t even think twice. But that’s because I would have a decent-sized budget. Hopefully 😆 Thanks for watching and contributing to the conversation. 😊

[@itluis2009]

@@NetworkAdvisor I believe the price for a tester like that should be around 800$ Today’s switches and router are very good so layer 1 of a network is a lot easier to repair and maintain that yrs ago even a small tablet with usb c can have a nick adapter and a few free apps installed can give you a lot of information about the network A regular today’s tdr can give you info about distance of the cable in question and even ping the port the wire is connected to Fluke Corp need to understand that today’s competition is everywhere and they are flooding the market with so many devices

[@NetworkAdvisor]

Hmm, interesting idea about the iPad with a lightning nic attached. 🤔 Almost sounds like a future video idea! 😄

[@itluis2009]

@Big Bird agree

[@itnearu]

@@NetworkAdvisor exactly correct. In a corporate environment on a site with eg. 100 users, every hour they're down is 100 lost hours of labour.