Gigabit Network issue

pdw8 · 25 Oct 2009 at 17:57

I'm having issues with my home LAN. A few months ago i run some Avaya Gigaspeed cat6 cable from my study to the lounge. Its been running fine connecting at 100mb linking my 360 to the LAN and streaming from my pc.
Ive now got a media streamer (WDTV with a Belkin Gigabit adapter) and a Netgear Gigabit switch. If i connect the Belking direct to the switch it syncs at 1000mb and so does my NAS.
The problem is when i move the WDTV to the lounge and connect the cat6 it only syncs at 100mb. Its a direct run with no other connectors or panels etc and I'm totally lost why it wont sync at 1000mb which i need for 1080P streaming.

Any ideas?

Thanks, Paul

Zarf · 25 Oct 2009 at 18:10

Firstly, 100mb/s is plenty for x264 1080p streaming, you don't need more than 20mb/s. you don't even need more than around 60mb/s to stream a full 50GB blu-ray rip.
Plus you're going to be limited by the usb connection way before gigabit speeds for the belkin gigabit adaptor anyway.

How long is the cable run? Can you borrow a cable tester or test with a laptop or something in the lounge? It could be that one of the wires in either the blue or brown pairs is broken - 100mb only needs the green and orange pairs to work.

wij · 25 Oct 2009 at 18:35

^What he said, my money would be on the cable being bad.

pdw8 · 25 Oct 2009 at 19:56

OK i will test the cable again. Thanks for the help.

Sin_Chase · 26 Oct 2009 at 00:08

cat6 is a pain to work with and for that run cat5e will handle 1gbit fine.

Mantaray · 3 Nov 2009 at 15:25

got a 26 port gigabyte switch, had 5 comps to wire up to it had 20 cables at cat5e only 4 wud work at full 1000 ,, found out rest was cheap unshielded network cable
they was 2 years old thow

also helps when u have the proper gigabite lan cards not the cheap nasty thin 1s