During a network upgrade, a technician uses a cable tester to verify the new cabling installations. The tester identifies several failures. What type of issues CANNOT be directly detected using a standard cable tester?
While a cable tester can effectively detect electrical problems, such as discontinuities, shorts, or miswirings (crossed or reversed wires), it cannot directly determine signal degradation issues like attenuation or interference. These types of problems require more advanced analysis typically provided by a network analyzer, which can measure the quality of signal transmission and identify disturbances or signal loss over a network cable.
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