Ber - Bit Error Rate Test - Pockethernet Manual

BER - Bit Error Rate test

The Bit Error Rate Test measures the overall quality of a cable run by sending
and receiving large amount of ethernet frames and measuring how many of
them get corrupted along the way.
For this measurement, you need to connect the 'Loopback' side of the
Pockethernet terminator device to the far end of the cable
To test different scenarios, you can configure the link speed which is used,
the packets length and contents (fixed pattern of 0x5AA5 bytes or a pseudo-
random sequence). The ratio of packets with CRC errors will be displayed in
percent or ppm (parts per million) and is a directly proportional to the cabling
quality.
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