External cat5e run - mystery issue

bremen1874 said:
One thing I will say is that the wires should all be coming in from the same side of both termination blocks.

One set of wires on each faceplate is currently coming in from the wrong side. If the wires are coming in from the wrong side the Krone tool must have been used backwards and you may have knackered the IDCs in the process.
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Bugger. I didn't think of that, and now you've said it the blocks are patently asymmetrical so it makes sense. Doh. Oh well, live and learn. It was hard enough to do it this way, no way could I have done it all from one side I don't think. I'll give it a go when it comes to replace them though. Cheers for the heads up and a (possible) explanation that puts my mind at rest as to why it won't work. :)
 
Just to add, I've managed to get around to some testing. Even with my VPN connected I'm getting a solid 47MB/sec down over NNTP (newsgroups), and the same from fast HTTP servers and torrents. Local transfers are a steady 105MB/sec, so it seems I got what I needed even if I do have a useless second wire. On wifi I was lucky to hit 20MB/sec a lot of the time, so this is definitely mission accomplished... and lesson learnt about which way to wire up a faceplate lol. Thanks everyone. :)
 
You should use a cable tie at the top white bit and have the cable punched in from right to left.

They look a little messy tbh..
 
Having taken on board the advice given by you all, I re-punched both boxes tonight:

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Unfortunately the leftmost/first port is definitely dead, but at least the pairs are now properly twisted and tightened up for the working cable. Lessons learnt for next time. :)
 
I would buy a couple of Keystone Jacks and try without the junction boxes to rule out cheap cable. The way those junction boxes are terminated seems weird, it would be far better to have one cable punched in the top half and one in the bottom half with 4 slots on either side rather than having it going straight down 8 in-a-row from top to bottom like that, it seems like bad design to me so I'd question the build quality as well.

I'd assume if you're getting a signal but it's not even synching at 100Mb/s there is something seriously wrong somewhere, either the cable or junction box must be bad.

edit: you could try switching the cables around as well rather than using keystones...
 
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Well done for getting stuck in I say.

If it works to your needs what's the issue but rated keystones look like the solution to the missing data to me.
 
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