How durable is ethernet port?

[Ishit Singh]

Guys how easy is it to break Ethernet port? Today 3 guys came to setup home network and were struggling to put Ethernet in my PC, I think its probably because of how hard it is to reach my PC IO panel.

 

After many failed attempts I saw how frustrated he became since it's his job to do these kind of thing and he even refused my help. After many attempts he then started adding a lot force, the other guy noticed and connected the cable himself and then started laughing at him later because of his stupidity.

 

I'm worried that because of his stupidity he might've caused some damaged to my mobo Ethernet port. Is there's a way to know if there's any damage or not?

[flashiling]

does it work?

then it's not damaged,

but in general i feel like you'd break the header on the ethernet cable (if it's the plastic ones) prior to the port itself

[Suika]

I've never seen an ethernet port fail from physical abuse personally, so I'd assume it's pretty resilient. You could always just look at the port yourself and make sure it isn't damage, or the port itself isn't bent backwards or lifting from the motherboard at all.

[Sir Asvald]

Only way to know for sure if you plug in a cable and see if it the ethernet port works or not..

[Ishit Singh]

5 minutes ago, flashiling said:

does it work?

then it's not damaged,

but in general i feel like you'd break the header on the ethernet cable (if it's the plastic ones) prior to the port itself

Yes it's working, but if the port was damaged will it cause slower speed or ping or will there be no network in Ethernet at all?

[Ishit Singh]

2 minutes ago, Sir Asvald said:

Only way to know for sure if you plug in a cable and see if it the ethernet port works or not..

It seems to be working. If it was damaged will there be no network in Ethernet or the data transfer speed and ping will be reduce slightly?

[porina]

They are quite robust. About the only way to damage it is if you have a mechanically bad plug, or totally wrong plug pushed in it. That can push the contacts out of place.

[porina]

1 minute ago, Ishit Singh said:

It seems to be working. If it was damaged will there be no network in Ethernet or the data transfer speed and ping will be reduce slightly?

Short answer would be it either works or doesn't work.

 

It is supposed to adapt to bad conditions, so if it can't run at full speed it can try to run at lower speed, for example if you have an old/bad cable. This shouldn't impact the plug/socket.

[Ishit Singh]

9 minutes ago, Suika said:

I've never seen an ethernet port fail from physical abuse personally, so I'd assume it's pretty resilient. You could always just look at the port yourself and make sure it isn't damage, or the port itself isn't bent backwards or lifting from the motherboard at all.

 

3 minutes ago, porina said:

They are quite robust. About the only way to damage it is if you have a mechanically bad plug, or totally wrong plug pushed in it. That can push the contacts out of place.

Here's the picture of ethernet port condition

 

[keskparane]

it's fine

 

[Kanna]

Something I know for sure is that the ethernet cables don’t like when lightning goes thru them neither does the router nor other end

[Alex Atkin UK]

15 hours ago, Ishit Singh said:

Guys how easy is it to break Ethernet port? Today 3 guys came to setup home network and were struggling to put Ethernet in my PC, I think its probably because of how hard it is to reach my PC IO panel.

 

After many failed attempts I saw how frustrated he became since it's his job to do these kind of thing and he even refused my help. After many attempts he then started adding a lot force, the other guy noticed and connected the cable himself and then started laughing at him later because of his stupidity.

 

I'm worried that because of his stupidity he might've caused some damaged to my mobo Ethernet port. Is there's a way to know if there's any damage or not?

I'd be more concerned he was trying to plug it into the wrong port as there is no way it should have been hard to plug into that port.

I've probably plugged in ethernet blind a thousand times and its only ever hard if the IO panel is slightly off or you're struggling around something plugged into USB underneath (presumably the case here).