This Budget Network Cable Tester is AWESOME! - Noyafa NF-8209S

In this video we take a look at a very affordable, yet extremely powerful device for testing network cables that provides many useful features that are invaluable when it comes to identifying and locating faults.

Chapters:
00:00 - Introduction
02:33 - Unboxing & Hardware Tour
08:15 - Test Setup
09:10 - Looking at a Basic Cable Tester
10:10 - Continuity Testing
11:14 - Cable Length Measurement
14:08 - Cable Toning/Scanning
16:43 - PoE Testing
17:53 - Port Flashing
18:26 - RJ45 Crimp Testing ("QC")
20:45 - Fault Finding Demonstration
29:03 - Conclusion

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[N.A._McBee]

I have rarely seen such an accurate product description with such a precise language. 30 min of length, although you're a blazingly fast speaker, wow! But worth every minute! - I'll recommend your videos to friends who need some English competence in understanding spoken language. Thank you for the top notch report and the nice experimental setting, well done! Cheers!

[rickwookie]

The killer feature of the digital toner on these Noyafa testers is to use the gain nob to “narrow down” the cable location. Highest gain can hunt for a cable in a room sometimes (in walls, ceilings, floors, etc.)and then lower the gain to identify the correct cable bundle, then lower it again as you narrow down to the position in a bundle, and finally drop it again to find the specific cable. It also has none of the annoying “mains hum” that the analogue toners have, where often the mains drowns out the bleeper. These just bleep or nothing (although the bleep does get stronger when you’re really really close).

[my.]

Many thanks for the excellent review - received mine today.

[jim]

Thank you for all the information. Great video.

[iiMaaDz]

best device review ever, covers every details, thank you cameron

[trone]

Excellent explanation clearly laid out in easy to understand language.

[Georg-Gruber]

I have so far used the light gray cheap tester. It works as long as everything works. But if there is an error somewhere, it is very hard and takes ages to find and locate it. The tester you show is great. Especially the crimp testing at 20:00 made me to buy it using your link. Thanks for the efforts to show all this in the video.

[bitsorbytes]

Thanks for the great review!! Love for a follow up review on the nf-8506, which seems to be the same but a colour screen and some ip info.

[StuartDutton]

Great Video, a must have fault finding tool 👍

[Fishboneu]

I learned so much...thank you! You just gained a new subscriber! 😁

[treeoflifeenterprises]

thanks for the vid. I've used a cheap tester for many years, and this (still affordable) one has some features that would have saved me some time on quite a few jobs. I've ordered one up. 🙂

[TerenceKearns]

I’m a freelance videographer doing livestreams and I’ve moved my camera setup to using Ethernet, be that through LAN streams over IP or hdmi to ethernet extender boxes. I bought one of these testers on a hunch a few weeks ago thinking it might be useful. Oh boy, I’m glad I did. After watching you video I went through my bag of old Ethernet cables and about 30% of them were faulty. Most bad terminations as determined by the QC check. I’m so glad I got one of these and your video is absolutely perfect for me and my level of knowledge (which is practically nothing) when it comes to cabling. I might buy a crimp tool and a fresh roll of cat6e. Thanks for your excellent video.

[venzislav]

Thanks for the review - I just needed something cheap and good like this :)
Ordered one by your link - enjoy :)

[nobodynemoq]

Very neat tool. I was looking for some good network tester and almost ended buying this Noyafa, but ended up with more advanced type (DADI TPT-8020A), which also handles third layer, so you can test DHCP, ping etc. It was a HUGE time saver when I was changing cables in a large facility with multiple networks and server rooms.

[JBR.]

its not often I stop everything to watch one of my subscribed videos...but when its one of yours;, everything else can wait...espeically as I am in the market for a new network tester

[juliannesermon]

Thank you, ordered via your link <3

[KevinR]

It's great to see one of these reviewed. I'd come across the devices and this main brand a few years ago, but hadn't risked the purchase. Thanks for the effort.

[successisurs]

Damn it, the beep woke my dog. Thanks Cameron. 😅😅

[udirt]

Also have one like this, it has been invaluable in debugging in a museum where you have 3-4 mins walk from the patch room to the lan port and only a subset of ports is patched. you also have 5-7m high ceiling ports, for all the debugging this is really great. i have the standby time to 60 mins to able to work, otherwise it might have gone into standby before i managed to arrive at the other end and test there.
still waiting for one that has LLDP and can read most TLVs at that.

[BlueSky-cynw]

I really like the length feature. A while back I had a long run of CAT 6 cable with one broken wire somewhere along the entire length. I spent a long time trying to figure out where the break was. Eventually, I just replaced the entire cable.