I've managed to bodge some CAT5 originally laid for phone purposes by BT.
I punched one end into a socket, and at the other end I ran cable from the distribution panel to another socket.
One end has a router on it, and the other end has a 10/100 switch.
If I leave it as is, it links at 100Mb. However, if I ping -t it is mostly <1ms, but occasionally times out. Downloads from fuller.zen.co.uk only max out between 100k and 200k, sometimes even less.
If I shove an ancient 10Mb hub in between the socket and the 10/100 switch, it forces the link down to 10Mb, there's no packet loss and fuller.zen.co.uk maxes out at 360k, which is a lot more like it.
So - is there anything I can do, or am I stuck at 10Mb forever more? 10Mb is still more throughput than my wireless, so it's a (slight) step up.
I punched one end into a socket, and at the other end I ran cable from the distribution panel to another socket.
One end has a router on it, and the other end has a 10/100 switch.
If I leave it as is, it links at 100Mb. However, if I ping -t it is mostly <1ms, but occasionally times out. Downloads from fuller.zen.co.uk only max out between 100k and 200k, sometimes even less.
If I shove an ancient 10Mb hub in between the socket and the 10/100 switch, it forces the link down to 10Mb, there's no packet loss and fuller.zen.co.uk maxes out at 360k, which is a lot more like it.
So - is there anything I can do, or am I stuck at 10Mb forever more? 10Mb is still more throughput than my wireless, so it's a (slight) step up.