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I have Cat 6 wiring in all rooms of my house, but my router has an RJ-45 port for internet and an RJ-11 port for telephone. Since the router is in the bedroom, can I connect an RJ-11 cable from the router to the RJ-45 wall socket in the bedroom, linking it to the living room's RJ-45 socket? From there, could I use an RJ-11 cable to connect to my telephone? In essence, I'm wondering if my telephone will function properly if I use an RJ-45 cable in between of an RJ-11 cable in this setup or do i need any kind of adapter of specific cable for this if yes; Then where can i buy it?
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Hello all, I have some CAT6 Ethernet cables in a rats nest and I’ve noticed one of them needs replaced because it got bent too tight. I was wondering if anyone has any idea what the ideal curve radius for a regular CAT6 cable is. A lot of them are going 90 degrees, and all of them are round about 0.65 CM sheathing, except for one flat cable. Thanks
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I recently updated my home network system since I got a Synology ds1522+ for video editing. But a bonus I was excited about was being able to fully utilize the 800 down I pay for from Xfinity. However, when I got the system up and running I noticed that whenever I download anything I can get it to go faster than 72mbps. Testmy.net was giving me a top download of 923mbps the 3 tests I've done downloading have been from: WeTransfer: 18mbps Google Drive: 69mbps Steam: 79mbps My system is a NETGEAR - Nighthawk 32 x 8 -> google wifi router -> NETGEAR Gigabit Ethernet Unmanaged Switch (GS308) all wiring is cat6. Im kinda stumped as to why my speeds aren't lining up. Any suggestions?
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Anyone know the stealthiest way to route a cable from one corner to the next (not including through the wall)? Need to get an ethernet cable from one corner of a room to the diagonal opposite. Appreciate the help!
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I am looking at wiring my new house for ethernet (walls are open). For regular ethernet jacks around the house this is my plan: Punch-down Keystone Wall Plate > Cat6E Cable > Patch Panel with Pass-through Couplers (not punch down style) > Patch Cat6 cable > Switch For WiFi Access Points this is my plan: AP > Cat6E Cable > Patch Panel with Pass-through Couplers (not punch down style) > Patch Cat6 cable > PoE Injector > Patch Cat6 cable > Switch I am not sure if this is too complicated or if it will work fine My main reason for this forum post is does anyone know if the PoE injectors will work with those FS.com couplers in the blank patch panel? They are circuit board instead of individually wired internally. I contacted their support but they told me no twice and yes once for PoE support from three different representatives. The other reason is does anyone know if my current setup will be able to handle 10GbE in the future (other than the switch)? I can run Cat6a instead of the Cat6E if thats better for the future. The parts are as follows: >RJ45 Modular Ends: Cable Matters 100 Pack Pass Through RJ45 Modular Plugs for Solid or Stranded UTP Cable >Punch-down Keystone Jacks: Cable Matters UL Listed 25-Pack Slim Profile 90 Degree Cat 6, Cat6 RJ45 Keystone Jack with Keystone Punch Down Stand in White >Cat6E Cable: CAT6E Riser (CMR), 1000ft, UTP 24AWG, Solid Bare Copper, 600MHz, UL Certified, Easy to Pull (Reelex II) Box, Bulk Ethernet Cable in White >Router: Ubiquiti Dream Machine Pro >Switch: Ubiquiti Switch Pro 24 >Patch Panel: Cable Matters Rackmount or Wall Mount 24 Port Keystone Patch Panel (Blank Patch Panel for Keystone Jacks/Keystone Panel) >Couplers for Blank Patch Panel: Cat6 Keystone RJ45 Coupler, Unshielded, Female to Female Insert Inline Coupler >Patch Cables: 12ft (3.7m) Cat6 Snagless Unshielded (UTP) PVC CM Ethernet Network Patch Cable >Access Points: Ubiquiti UniFi Access Point WiFi 6 Long-Range & Ubiquiti UniFi Access Point WiFi 6 Lite >Wall Plates: Two Ports Keystone Single Gang Wall Plate
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Hi so my problem is a pretty straight foward one. I have a patch pannel that is filled with cat6 keystones and right now im running entirely on cat5e. What im wondering is since im looking to upgrade to cat6a do I need to replace the keystones or can I still use the cat6? They are female to female keystones nothing fancy.
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I'm a new member here to the forums and not very well versed in networking setups. I'll go ahead and apologize in advance if this topic has already been covered somewhere else in the forum. I am moving into a new house and we have a new internet plan that is up to 500 mbps coming in off of a fiber optic line. My questions generally are related to what is going to be the bottleneck and what sort of speeds should I realistically buy hardware for to harness the max amount of the speed I'm paying for, such as: If I get a modem that will handle XXXmbps speed and then connect a router that's capable of 1gbps to that modem, is that 500mbps that is flowing through the modem and router now going to be split across all the connected devices? (example: 5 devices connected to router and now each one would be capped at a theoretical 100mbps) I'm worried that if I go out and buy the latest and greatest super modem and router setup that most of the potential of the setup will be wasted along with the money I paid for it over a more tame system. Thanks in advance!
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Hi! I used to have a cat.5e cable on my PC that I now swapped out for a cat.6, but I get a "Unidentified Network" error when doing so. The cat.6 cable works perfectly, as I tested it in 2 other devices. I now tested a different cat.5e on my desktop to ensure no settings on my PC were wrong and it works perfectly. So now: the cat.6 cable itself works, and my PC has no incorrect settings, as other cables work. What's the deal with this? I thought different cat cables just had different bandwidths, I'm really confused. Do motherboards have to support specific cables? I'm okay with buying a new cable, I just don't know if I have to stick with cat.5e to be sure or not.
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Hi I've have just moved and convinced landlord to join me to making separated networks for the apartments. (Just mine and his) and the cable (cat5e) was already made and stretched. But without rj45 connectors. Was wondering if I can I use rj45 cat 6 connectors for cat5e cable?
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I just ordered a Cat 7 Ethernet cable, I was under the impression this is better than the previous Cat6/a cables but I've watched explaining there's no real benefit and I've been told they damage easier. Is this the case? I plan to have the cable run under the floor, around 10m. The cable I've bought: https://www.amazon.co.uk/KabelDirekt-connectors-Ethernet-transfers-suitable-Black/dp/B0843WLW6S/ref=sr_1_3?dchild=1&keywords=kabeldirekt+ethernet+10m&qid=1606907989&sr=8-3
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Hi, recently I renovated my flat I pulled cat 6 cable through the walls. What kind of keystone is supposed to be used? And does cat6 support 10gbit?
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I know this question has already been asked a few times but I feel that my case is a little different since I've tried all the solutions provided in the other threads. I created a small diagram to avoid any potential confusion. My attempt to solve the kink in the cable, also a diagram how things are laid out currently So I have a cat6 cable of 80 meters. This cable has worked in the past. However, 2 years later I want to use that cable again and now it only gives me 95 mbps(tested with iperf3), it also gets recognized as a 100mbps link instead of a 1000mbps link. Image 1 provides a visual representation of how everything is laid out at this point. Parts: The lsa wall plug that I use: https://www.allekabels.be/netwerk-wandcontactdoos/11438/1084697/cat6-wandcontactdoos-inbouw.html All other ends of the cable are terminated with this rj45 connector: https://www.allekabels.be/stekker-doos-en-krimptang/188/1349725/cat6a7-modulaire-connector.html The type of cable I use: S/FTP - CU 250mhz My troubleshooting steps: Redo the connector, router side (changed nothing) Redo the lsa wallplug, pc side (changed nothing) Test the cable with a cable tester. (all wires are working, but still only 100mbps) Check the entire cable for kinks (Found two kinks and cut that piece out. Connected the now 2 cables by adding an rj45 to the ends and connecting them with an ethernet extender, see the after part in the image) (solved nothing) Test the cable again with cable tester (all wires are working, still 100 mbps) Test the cable with iperf from the router to the extender (950 Mbps, recognized as 1000mbps link) Test the cable with iperf from the extender to the PC (95 Mbps, recognized as 100mbps link) (The previous 2 test results do not change if I do them with or without the extender included.) Redo the connector for the cable from the extender to the pc (nothing changes) Redo the lsa plug for the cable from the extender to the PC (nothing changes). Test again with the cable tester (all wires are working) Nothing changes no matter what I try. Things I know for sure: The rj45 connectors support solid core cable. The lsa plug supports cat6. I use the T568B standard everywhere. The type of cable I'm using is S/FTP cat6. The cable does not run anywhere near any other cables(except where it connects to the router). Short distance of about 15 meters works just as it's supposed to. Longer distance of about 65 meters gets recognized as a 100 mbps link What else could it be? The only thing I can think of right now is that the signal isn't strong enough by the time It reaches the pc. So I am still planning putting a switch in the middle of the 65 meter part of the cable. However I would rather not do this since this is outdoors and I don't have a good way of protecting the switch or the not interrupted cable from the elements. If this also does not help, would upgrading to a cat6a help? I read somewhere that cat6 Is not that reliable after about 50 meters. PS: If you find any spelling/grammar mistakes, please let me know. I am still learning English ;)
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Hi guys so I just upgraded to virgin media’s 1GB speeds and I’m not able to get the most out of it with WiFi. My house electricity runs on 2 circuits so power line in my room with my pc gets under 100mbps speed which is a lot of drop off. I was looking into hard wiring Ethernet and wondered if it would be worth it. From my router to my room would be around 30m of cat6 cable. Would this be an okay distance without seeing major drop off in speeds? Or would I need like an enhancer of some sort I’m not too knowledgeable in networking.
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hey, i have a question about the connecters for cat6 cables. my house is wired with cat6, but i need to put on the rj45 connecters on the ends with my crimp tool. I was woundering if I NEED CAT6 Connecters, or if rj45 connecters are all the same, and the only thing speed wise for cat6 is the cable its self. Lmk Thanks #LLT
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Hi everyone! I hope everyone is healthy and distancing. I would like to hard wire network my home. I have been looking into this for years at this point, but I think possibly by this winter I want to pull the trigger and do it, so I have a lot of time between now and then to buy what I need. I live in southern Texas, so doing it now is out of the question do to the heat in my attic. I'd like to run my cables through my attic and down my walls to my PC, my sons PC, my NAS, Nvidia shield, apple TV, PS4, Xbox One, and wireless router. I am fairly new to networking apart from setting up my wifi routers, and a switch confuses me, I don't understand what it means when its said that the switch creates networks and the router connects the different networks. Question #1 Do I go from modem, to router, to switch or from modem, to switch, to router? I have seen both suggested. Question #2 What is a good switch to get? I'd like at least gigabit, I would say 10 gigabit but I don't think any items on my network have a 10 gigabit connection. Question #3 Is there even a point to 10 gigabit? Would that allow items to connect to my internet better or just to each other better? I know from LTT's video "Home 10 Gig Network Upgrade for CHEAP" that 10 gigabit is somewhat affordable, albeit not cheap. Would having that "room to breathe" in network allow better net connection? I am getting gigabit speed from ISP, so I know that having a 10 gigabit network won't magically give me a 10 gigabit internet connection(that would be awesome though). Question #4 What is a good switch to get? I was looking at some Linksys ones, since that is what I have usually had for routers, and current router is a Linksys(Max-Stream AC5400), but I just want a good one. Question #5 I can afford Cat8 cable from pricing I have found, and I'd like to future proof this network, so is there a reason to not get Cat8? Question #6 My modem is a Arris Surfboard SB8200 and I am paying for gigabit from my ISP(Grande), can anyone tell me why when I connect my PC directly to the modem I get basically the full gigabit but when my PC is connected through router, which is all on same desk my speeds are usually 300mbps or less.
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For over a year I have been using CAT7 S/FTP in my home and every time when I run a new cable I wonder.. Does it really matter what type connector I use? I got Draka cat7 cable because I wanted to be future prove “better do it right the first time”. While the cable was easy to get, the LSA / RJ45 connectors just weren’t there. So I used CAT6a LSA wall outlets / patch panels and CAT5e RJ45 connectors. Even now it´s hard to find CAT7 rated products, and if you find them the price knocks you over. It gives me the feeling that the “right connector,keystone” doesn’t matter that much. And that it might be possible to get my 10GBe speed (best case) on a CAT7 cable equipped with CAT5e connectors. I would love to test this case, but I don’t own a 10GBe network (yet), so help me out guys. Does it really matter, and if yes, how much does it matter?
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So just recently I have been struggling with my internet acting up. Essentially, it will appear that my cable is unplugging itself off and on and I can hardly use my internet on the PC. I do not have a wifi card to test if it is only the cable acting up. IF that is the case, what type of cable would you prefer and the most rugged to be routed partially outside the house? If it is neither of those, help me find out if it is bandwidth restrictions or poor internet. I highly doubt it is poor internet as it has never had these problems before. Please let me know what y'all think!
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i have gigabit internet but when i run internet tests i only get 100-110 down 10 up. in games im hitting around 30 ping. im using a cat6 cable. how can i achieve better speeds?
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I dare say this has already been asked on the forum and I do apologize for re asking it if it already has. But in the off chance it hasn't how's this for a overly complex and most likely not financially viable idea. 1 server that does all your PC's in your house. And I'm not talking in the same room or remoting into the machine. I'm talking is there a way to pass optical and say 2 USB data transmions through a dedicated lam cable to another room where it would have a hub that reverts it back to HDMI and USB? I'm assuming you would saturate cat6 trying to do so wouldn't you and wouldn't that latency make it ungamable . For certain things such as photo and video editing remoting into a machine would be ok but for gaming thays just not quite going to cut it. As my house sits at the moment I live with my parents and my sister and my girlfriend. I have my central server running unraid for Plex, run my Nas, security backup, and have my virtual machines set up. My girlfriend likes to do lots of photo editing on her tablet on the sofa but it only has a celeron CPU so she just remotes into her machine to edit. My father likes to do drone video editing and he just has a i3 laptop so he just remotes into his seperate machine to edit . My sister attends high school so she remotes in to her machine to go around the schools security. And for me and my sister boyfriend we have a machine we just use for steam to stream our games so we can play AAA titles on out laptops. Just wondering if there is a way to do away with my gaming desktop and just move to one environment. Sincerely your residential Australian Jordan.
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Hello LTT forums! Sorry if I got the wrong idea for my title and tags so if you have a better idea for them then just tell me. I'm trying to make this thread since I couldn't find any on the subject when I originally looked for it earlier. I've been trying to optimize the cabling of my network for a while now and I've found some good 2m(6feet?) long patch cables at a store and just bought a pair of Cat6 ones "for science". As a bonus one was a normal cable and the other was was the flat design that doesn't even seem to be able to fit any proper shielding. I live in Hungary and have a Gigabit connection but even with everything else that net related is disabled I can "only" get the 55-65% of the bandwidth and even thought I KNOW I wouldn't notice it if it was at full speed the tech guy in me just wishes to see what could be the bottleneck. ? My router and modem both rest in a hellscape of power/data cables and other clutter behind my monitor with WiFi running all the time. It also just turned out that my router was connected to our modem with a simple Cat5 cable so I was actually excited to see what can an upgrade do. I ran almost 2 dozen test by pairing different categories with each other and after I went from Cat5+Cat5e all the was to Cat6+Cat6 it turned out that it all meant NOTHING. My speeds didn't change at all, not with the basic Cat5 nor with the flat(I can't believe these are shielded) Cat6 cable. They stuck around 60% and the only time it shot up to 70% was when I did a last test late at night which probably just means that other people have went to sleep. ? So I know that these categories are meant for REAL distances that span whole rooms or buildings and my 2m long cables might as well just be PCB level connections, but still I feel like a place to collect such experiences could be useful for those who are lost in the sea of definitions and marketing. So if you had any positive or negative experiences with different distances or were able to pull off an upgrade that wouldn't have made sense then please leave a story here for people to find. ?
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Recently I replaced some CAT6 cable with some CAT5E due to the CAT6 being far too long to fit inside some trunking. I was under the impression that the difference in speeds between CAT5E and CAT6 should only matter for local network speeds. However as soon as I plugged in the CAT5E cable from my router to my PC, I did a speedtest and my download speed was dramaticlly reduced. Normally on CAT6 I get my full speed of 220 Mbps but on CAT5E I get around 60 Mbps. I tested it muliple times as well with consistent results. The CAT5E was cut to length and crimped by someone at my dads work (they often run ethernet cables for large buildings) and he said it could be that the crimping wasn't done properly or something. Does this sound normal for CAT5E, are there other factors at work here, or could it be that the cable wasn't crimped properly? Any suggestions will be appreciated.
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Hi there, I currently have a CAT6 cable connecting my main PC to my (ISP default) router for interent / LAN access. However it's too long to look neat so I'm getting some custom length CAT5E cable made. My question is; will I notice any difference in both the interent download/upload speed, but also in regard to streaming video files stored locally on my main PC to other devices around the house connected to the household LAN. Will I notice any difference using CAT5E as opposed to using CAT6, in both of these? Or is the downgrade to CAT5E not noticeable? Any insight will be appreciated. Thanks, GR412
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So I don't really have any pictures of the progress of this, its dragged on for almost a year because it was kind of a weekend project and as you can see its still not complete. I still have some wires that I need to clean up that are still running out the door and there's also a broken jack on the bottom patch panel but for the most part it is done. Everything is CAT6, I used Monoprice riser cable for all the horizontal cabling runs because believe it or not it is actually better quality cable for the price than other brands. Monoprice is solid copper, many boxes you find on Amazon or god forbid eBay are aluminum copper clad. All the patch cables and panels are CAT6 and I have a 1Gbp link all the way back to the VDSL modem. The MikroTik is handling PPP and all the DHCP, NAT, etc. So far the MikroTik has worked wonders for me, I'm still working out some kinks trying to implement IDS/IPS with snort integration with the MikroTik and also trying to set some bandwidth limits. Eventually the demarc on the outside of the house will be moved and trenched with new line all the way out to the DSLAM but for right now everything is working like a champ. All the equipment (Excluding consumer grade modem) is grounded and I've also got a dedicated ground on both the DSL and cable lines. Hope ya'll enjoy, if you have any questions or advice I'd love to learn.
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Hi, Just wanting to get some confirmation wheather anyone else can't securely lock in there ethernet cable (Cat6) to the ethernet port of there Nvidia shield. The nvidia shield detects it but its can easily be pulled out. Is this a know issue or is my nvidia shield broken? Cheers
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I recently moved into a new place and started studying at a University. The place has some really nice internet speeds. When checking the network speed through the adapter settings in the Windows Control Panel the connection shows up as 1gbps which is great. Once I test the connection through speedtest.net I get the typical 100mbps test which is just 2-5% below 100mbps. I've tried running directly from the modem to the PC and from the router to the PC but still the same results. I'm using a Cat 6 cable and my mobo is the MSI Z370-A Pro. The mobo runs this network controller http://bit.ly/2LKrIfX Thanks for any help because I sure could use it.