Hello!
I've been pulling at my bald head where hair used to be all day. I need some help diagnosing a network problem.
I recently bought 1000' of Cat6 FTP cable for a home wiring project. I have a gigabit router (DLink DIR-655) & switch (Fry's generic), and all of the machines that I intend to connect directly (wired) to the network have gigabit ethernet ports; All of these computers' ethernet ports are built into their motherboards.
The problem is that the cat6 cables that I cut don't seem to be recognized correctly. In fact each machine says that the network cable is unplugged (yes I double checked that it was actually plugged in). I can get it to work at a slower speed. I have to go into the Device Manager, and in the Network Adapter's Advanced Properties tab, set the "Speed & Duplex" option to "10 mbps full duplex." It defeats the purpose of upgrading the network to gigabit if I have to limit each machine to 10 mbps.
I have cut three ~50' cables, and they each give this problem. I cut a fourth 5' cat6 cable, and connected my modem to my router. This connection does not seem to have a problem.
I have verified that the drivers are up to date on each machine. Each wire passes a simple connectivity test using a cable tester.
On my existing Cat5 connection, I am able to download at about 17mbps, using the Cat6 at "10 mbps full duplex" it drops to 9mbps. My service provider is supposed to be giving me 15 with occasional increases.
Could the wire be bad and still test ok? Any other ideas?
Please help me if you can.
I've been pulling at my bald head where hair used to be all day. I need some help diagnosing a network problem.
I recently bought 1000' of Cat6 FTP cable for a home wiring project. I have a gigabit router (DLink DIR-655) & switch (Fry's generic), and all of the machines that I intend to connect directly (wired) to the network have gigabit ethernet ports; All of these computers' ethernet ports are built into their motherboards.
The problem is that the cat6 cables that I cut don't seem to be recognized correctly. In fact each machine says that the network cable is unplugged (yes I double checked that it was actually plugged in). I can get it to work at a slower speed. I have to go into the Device Manager, and in the Network Adapter's Advanced Properties tab, set the "Speed & Duplex" option to "10 mbps full duplex." It defeats the purpose of upgrading the network to gigabit if I have to limit each machine to 10 mbps.
I have cut three ~50' cables, and they each give this problem. I cut a fourth 5' cat6 cable, and connected my modem to my router. This connection does not seem to have a problem.
I have verified that the drivers are up to date on each machine. Each wire passes a simple connectivity test using a cable tester.
On my existing Cat5 connection, I am able to download at about 17mbps, using the Cat6 at "10 mbps full duplex" it drops to 9mbps. My service provider is supposed to be giving me 15 with occasional increases.
Could the wire be bad and still test ok? Any other ideas?
Please help me if you can.