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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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The RJ11 Phone lines were run with Cat 5e Ethernet cable and they are daisy chained together. Would it be possible to re-terminate them as RJ45, run them into switches, and have internet throughout my house? Possible issues I see with it are total bandwidth (1000Mbps split between every computer on the network) and Ping. Image 1: Shows how 2 ethernet cables are daisy chained together. The pink cable is the connecting wire between the 2 keystones, and the other cables go to other keystones throughout the house. Image 2: Shows an example of how the RJ11 keystones are currently routed. Image 3: Shows what I am planning on doing to allow 1000Mbps internet over that line. Has anyone done something like this? If so what did you do? Also would there be a better way? possibly without using ethernet switches?
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Dear Linus Community I want to share the problem that I had and how I solved it. The reason why I'm doing it is because it was relatively tricky to diagnose and because just replacing some networking component does mask it so you may think that some equipment is faulty while it may very well be just fine (also the problem may present itself again in the future if misdiagnosed and misfixed). Background Story (you can safely skip this paragraph) I had a 10/100 network at home and after watching Linus videos about upgrading to 10Gb I decided to create a roadmap to slowly upgrade my network to 10Gb, my backup solution, and my security system. Thus I started the journey by replacing Cat5 and telephone cables with Cat6a shielded cables inside the walls and Cat6a sockets (yes I was running ethernet on 4 wires telephone cables). Then I replaced my 10 and 10/100 switches with 1Gb switches (10Gb is still too expensive for the amount of components that I am replacing). Then I replaced my NAS for a more performing one. And finally I started revamping my security system to have something well integrated with cameras on a separate subnet like the video from Level1tech. It was a this point that I started shuffling components around to place them in a better position and replacing long cat5 patch cables with homemade cat6a ones. While testing the new cables all kind of weird things started to happen. Symptoms of the problem All the equipments seemed to work just fine with industrial cables but not with the DIY ones. It took a long time to establish a link speed and IP and finally the link was 100Mbit In some occasions it would grab a 1Gb link but then moving the cable a little caused the link to drop to 100Mbit or to become inactive The link in some occasions started to quickly shuffle between active/inactive indefinitely or by dropping to 10Mbit after a long time. It seemed to be very inconsistent with some computers and switches jumping to 1Gb for several test in a row just to drop to 100Mbit or to inactive after trying long enough. A cable would work just fine before passing it behind a bookshelf but then would drop to 100Mbit or not work at all once in position. Then the same cable would work again if pulled out but then it started misbehaving even when on the floor. Solution Basically after I excluded interference from the AC lines, errors in the way i made the cables, broken equipment of cables, I was pulling my airs off and almost resulted in buying additional industrial cables of the required length. But then almost randomly I started comparing visually industrial cables and DIY ones with old and new plugs. I noticed that there was a piece of the shield of the socked that was curiously aligned with the exposed ends of the DIY passthrough plug that I chopped off. It was at that point that came the idea. Maybe the cables of the plug were shorting on the shield of the socket. Thus I put a piece of Insulating tape on the exposed wires and now everything works flawlessly. I wanted to share this experience so that it may help other people around. If you youse pass through plugs you may not have a broken cable in your hand, it may just be a short circuit between the plug and the socket. Cheers and have a good day.
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I'm looking to convert my home wiring for telephone into ethernet that is delivered to the old telephone ports throughout the house. (CAT 5e cabling) I know how to change out the faceplate to an ethernet port and have already done so in my room. To connect the house wiring to the internet would you just run a ethernet cable from the router to the closest port and that would deliver internet to the ports throughout the house? We have a landline phone connected to the master socket and ideally would not want that to become redundant but can accept if it has to. My current setup is shown in the picture below and it would be great to know the best way to do this to get the best speeds / latency throughout the house. (For example: do we need a switch? etc.) Let me know if you need any more information
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Round Cat5e under carpet just for a length of about 65cm then carries on across skirting board. Bad idea or okay?
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I just purchased a Wifi card as I couldn’t get a signal. I’m currently using the regular ISP provided Router. I do plan on upgrading to this >> https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B085288G3M/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_JbnREb8YH4Q3N) I did tests on my internet Ethernet (4ft Cat5) 75 download & 10 upload Wifi within 4 feet of box 25/10 Wifi in my office 6/10 As you can see, it’s trash in my office. **It’s definitely not ideal for me to run Ethernet cable** throughout the apartment. I rent it. I would have to go along the wall, around a door frame, down the stairs, along the ceiling (along the ground would be nearly impossible and add an extra 50ft). Living room to dining room to kitchen is an open space. At the other near the patio is where the office is. I can run the cable but should I just invest in a better router? Is it worth it? I need good/great internet. How difficult is it to run cable considering what I have to do? *I cannot go through the walls* (See picture below for an idea. Internet Router is upstairs and not able to move it)
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I am doing a bit of home networking and I need some cable crimpers. I am using cat 6 cable, and the crimper I am buying https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B008UY5WL0/ref=crt_ewc_title_huc_1?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=A397FHERGRZQ2E , says it comes with cat 5/cat 5e crimp connectors. Do the connectors themselves need to be cat 6 compliant? I would think they are the same because the wires are the same, but i'm not sure.
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Hello everyone. I have recently moved into a new house with 4 other of my friends ( students ) and we have cat 5e ethernet running from 5 rooms down to the router box which has 4 ports. They are all functional when we plug them in but of course we cant plug all 5 into 4 ports. So I have asked the landlord if this was connected in anyway before ( maybe she had a switch ) and she said that she has only just installed the cables this summer so they havent been used yet. I said that what is needed was a network switch and it should connect all 5 rooms with internet so I have been given a job to find one and she will reimburse me for it. I am located in UK and we all have gaming PCs / laptop so ideally we would want a fairly fast switch but for not too much. Would you be able to tell me what to look for ? I dont know much about switch specs. All i know is that i should get a gigabit or 10 gigabit Also is the setup as simple as plugging all cables in ? or do I have to setup static IPs etc ? Thanks
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Hey guys I recently planned to switch my POE injector splitter to Gigabit to facilitate higher than 100Base-T speeds. Now I am stuck in a weird issue as shown in the below picture I am running a CAT5E cable for about 30ft from my router to a wall RJ45 Socket. From that Socket I run another CAT5E cable to the ISP provided ONT (Image 1) I was using a 100Mbps (2 Pair Passive POE injector Splitter earlier). Now I switched to a Gigabit POE injector Splitter (Image 2) After the upgrade i tested it out in dd wrt Console. And it reported my link speed as 100Base-T. So I resorted to testing it out with a network cable tester (Image 3) I am able to get all 8 pairs connected from the wall socket to my router. I inserted a patch cable from the network tester to the socket just to make sure the socket is not at fault. I am able to get all 8 Wires to light up. I again tested from the wall socket to the ISP provided ONT. Again all 8 Wires Light Up However when I link both these cables from the router to the ISP Provided ONT ( The 8th Wire alone goes blank). Beware that this is all before even the POE comes in. Do you guys have any insight as to why this thing is the case ? Isolated Network Layout (Image 4) Image in below post
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I have a 40ft cat5e ethernet cable. I only need 18 ft to reach the router. I have $15 newegg giftcard. A 25ft cat6e ethernet cable on newegg is $10.99. A roccat siru mousepad is $15.00 on newegg. I am currently my friends vanguard card game mat. Should I buy an ethernet cable or mousepad and if ethernet cable, can cat5e handle over 150mbps
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Hello to everyone on the forums! Hopefully I did not title this topic wrong, or chose the wrong forum. If not, let me begin with what I am trying to accomplish. Basically, I have been building a secondary PC for streaming purposes, and I am finally done. However, the PC is meant to stay downstairs, together with my LAN modem and switch. I had an idea, where with a capture card from my main (gaming) PC, I would transfer the signal, so that the USB cable from the capture card, goes into a LAN extender cable (which I cheaply got off ebay), and then through my network continues down to the streaming PC. When I finally had the chance to test it all out, the capture card wouldn't function properly. LEDs were dimming with darker brightness, and Windows did not recognize the device. It turned out that the voltage going through the long LAN cable is not enough for the capture card to work (about 10-15 meters to be exact in length). So I was thinking, and I believe that this is actually possible, to use a phone charger as a power supply to the capture card with the 2 USB pins that provide power, and let the other 2 USB pins (the data ones) deliver data to the streaming PC downstairs (since through the length voltage is being lost, data shouldn't be a problem). My question is, what is the best way to split this thing and make it work? The cables should look like this: One coming from the charger, and one coming from the LAN extender, and then both combining into one USB where I plug my capture card. The first cable will be power from the wall, while the second will just send the captured video game to the 2nd PC. Hopefully my idea can be accomplished, and is not that difficult to do. I am thankful in advance for any help provided! Thank you so much for reading this! Have a nice day everyone! -Marko.
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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 this is just a quick question i have no idea if every ethernet will work with the same plugin because im moving and i will get a 25mbps speed and i wanna keep up to it
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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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We are building a new home. My bedroom(pc) is 20m apart from TV . I need to stream my game on tv. ( instead of buying console). So, how to use cat cable ? Should I give it to my home router (bad) and get another cable from router to tv? What is best possible quality of stream 1080p or 4k and frames also. Is there any software program to use after connecting cat cable. I need it before my house flooring gets completed.
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I changed a few of my phone jacks (which are cat5e) to RJ45 but they don't work. All the phone lines in my house are all wired as one so there is one central point.
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So my mother wants to mov her home office into another room. I suggested that while the room is empty and accessible we run Ethernet threw the wall instead of using the current system of having it duck taped to the floor. Now my debate in my head. The new room is basically over the router on the floor below so the old run of cat5e cable is much longer than would be needed to reach the 2nd floor, but I'm thinking if I'm going to run cable should I upgrade while I'm at it. It's not likely she'll ever need the speed of cat6A or cat7 forgetting cat8 but if I'm going to invest the time to go up into the attic and do it right should I have a more modern cable so I don't have to run it again in a few years or can I get away with the 10/100/1000 for now. For note they have 90MB/S down from Comcast so yeah not actually taxing the cat5e ATM.
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I've been in my apartment for 12 years now and never bothered checking what was behind my RJ-11 wall jacks. I recently did, and found Cat 5e wires, so I ran to my cabinet where my cable comes into, and pulled 4 Cat 5e cables out of the wall! I got super excited, purchased a bunch of RJ-45 keystones, and am waiting for them to arrive. In the meantime though, I pulled out a few of these just to see if they were all wired up, and they are, but I found one that is causing my brain to hurt. I'm hoping someone in here can give me some ideas as to why I found a Cat 5E cable and a Cat 6 cable spliced together, and then further spliced into another Cat 5E which was hooked up to this one wall jacks keystone (photos below). Any ideas at all would be appreciated! I'm pretty sure no one will know for sure, but maybe you've seen something like this before, or done something like this before that can help me narrow down the purpose. I'm posting some pictures to help understand whats going on. In the first picture, I removed some of the tape that was holding all these together so you can see what's been done. The brown stranded and solid wires were not connected (since it was hooked up to an RJ-11). Picture 2 is how I found it, but only after I already cut off the RJ-11 keystone. As you can see there is a Cat 5e that comes out from the box, and a Cat 6 that comes out from the box, and they are spliced together to the one cat 5e that was connected to the keystone. I can't find a Cat 6 cable anywhere else in the apartment, and I even went down to the basement and couldn't find a Cat 6 anywhere in the basement cabinet. I'm pretty sure I can just get rid of the Cat 6 since it doesn't come into my cabinet. I'm waiting for my RJ-45 tester to arrive since I'm not a pro and didn't have one, but in the meantime I just connected the brown wires to keep everything the way they were (see photos below). I believe it should work this way too, but I'd prefer to get rid of the cat 6 since this happens to be the outlet that would be connected to my home server, so I don't want to risk any issues. Any advice would be appreciated!
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I have 2 different ethernet cables run though my walls, I need to solder the 2 ends together, but the colours are different on each other. Cable 1 has the following Blue and Blue+White twisted together Green and Green+White twisted together Orangey Gold and White twisted together Brown and Black+White twisted together Cable 2 has the following Brown Black Orange Light Blue Light Green Blue Green Very White Grey (Sorta white) Which colours go to which?
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I want a direct line from my living room to my office, should I string a 50ft cable along the ceiling and across the hallway, or purchase two Cat5e / F-Type Wall Plate couplers and setup connection that way. My main concern is going from one 50ft ethernet cable directly from router to computer. Versus 5ft ethernet cable from router to wall plate in living room > from wall plate to 50ft ethernet cable > wall plate in office > 20ft ethernet cable in office into computer. Will I be seeing any change in performance, I'm worried about adding latency. So far my pros and cons list are as follows: (If anyone can add to the pros/cons, that'd be great) 50ft Pros 50ft Cons - Direct line - Unattractive - Own 2 50ft cables - Bulky excess cable Wall Plates Pros Wall Plate Cons - Attractive - Fishing the cable - Less of a mess - Purchasing wall plates (~$15) - Own 2 50ft cables - Adds possible points of failure Back Story: I've just moved into a new apartment and setup my modem/router in my office. However, my router has trouble hitting the other end of the apartment. I've taken all the steps to increase signal strength, I'm on a separate channel than my neighbours, firmware update, etc. I like my router is my office so I can connect my desktop hardwired. If I move my modem and router to the living room, that is the central point of the apartment and I should have no signal strength issues. There are currently coax plates connected in both rooms, I'd simply buy a Cat5e/Coax faceplate to replace it after fishing the cable. Alternatively: Does anyone see any other possible solutions?
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I have a long (15m) ethernet cable going from downstairs where my router is to upstairs where my PC is via the outside of the house. The connector on the PC end of that ethernet cable broke, so I replaced it myself, making sure the colors are the same as the router end (facing upwards, clip on opposite side and left to right it goes: WO, O, WB, B, WG, G, WBr, Br). Before I replaced the connector, the speeds I got were over 200mbps down and 12 up (which is what I pay for). Now, the connection seems to cut out multiple times per minute, and I only get 1mbps down and 12mbps up. Here is the peculiar part: The same ethernet cable plugged into my laptop gets me 70mbps down and 12 up. A different ethernet cable plugged into my PC or laptop gets the good 200+ down and 12 up. Currently using a WiFi dongle with my PC. I don't know what has occurred to cause this. If the ethernet cable was broken, wouldn't the speed be the same on all PCs it's plugged into? If the router was the source, the other ethernet cable would also produce the same, slow speed. If it was my PCs fault, the other ethernet cable would also be slow, it is not. Please help me out. I'm not a networking expert. PS. (I wasn't the person who installed the outside ethernet cable in the first place).
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My internet service (DSL) was setup in a room upstairs to the phone jack. I currently have my computer downstairs and I have a phone jack down here. The thing is the space I have downstairs is limited and to bring my modem along with my ata phone adapter and primary phone is bothersome. As I am limited to wifi only at the moment, is there any other possible solution? I really don't want to use wifi anymore. Is it possible to utilize my downstairs jack without having to move my modem? I have looked into the idea of power lan adapters, but i'm not sure on that as there are many cons, for me that is.