Help!!! Just wired up my Gigabit network but only getting 100mbps

pumaz said:
The Wife doesn't want me to add boxes/make a mess until we next decorate. My plan would be to use the existing wiring and install faceplates then.

Knowing That I will have to cross electrical cabling a couple of times and I need to achieve a Gigabit connection over 15 meters, if you were me what Cable would your purchase and any particular brand ?

thanks :)
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You need to know that the stranded cable you'll find in the pre-terminated cables you’re using isn't designed to work with the punch down terminals used on faceplates.

I’d install solid core UTP Cat5e (or Cat6 if the cost is close enough). If you can’t install faceplates at the moment you can just crimp plugs on. The crimp tools are amazingly cheap if you shop around.

And always run more cables than you need at the moment.
 
startrek2 said:
id disagree 100m easily your on maximum,, really 70 metres a 100 metres struggling with speed and throughput ,, cat5e
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Completely disagree, and I have lived to experience it.

I ran cable at Glastonbury and V Festival, and the biggest run we did was 120m, out doors, in the **** rain and mud, and it still connected at 1gbit.
 
Yup, I've done over 100 metre runs before and still had gigabit speeds. It's not recommended but it works and the point is 100 metres is fine. Don't know where that 70 metre figure came from.
 
dLockers said:
Completely disagree, and I have lived to experience it.

I ran cable at Glastonbury and V Festival, and the biggest run we did was 120m, out doors, in the **** rain and mud, and it still connected at 1gbit.
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And I've ran 90m runs of Cat5e that connected at 1gbit and suffered an awful amount of late collisions.
 
Unless one of the ends in this case was acting as half duplex. Which must have been the case. There appears to be no embarrassed smiley. :p.

Either way, you're prone to errors through attenuation going over the suggested limits.
 
I've decided to go with Cat6 UTP snaggless cables, it's costing me less than £50 inc. for 2 x 15m, 2 x 5m, 8 x 1m and 2 x 0.5m cables. These will replace every single lead I have and as they're Cat6 I'm kind of guaranteed 1 Gigabit as long as I have Gigabit capable devices ( which I have)
 
I've got cat5e cables now and I'm not getting Gigabit speeds and tbh I don't mind paying the extra £25 for piece of mind and for whatever the future brings!
 
I had this same issue, until I spotted that my cable model is only 10/100 rated. I switched mine out for linksys gigabit one and BINGO - now i'm gigabit.

Any chance of a network diagram?
 
Tattysnuc said:
I had this same issue, until I spotted that my cable model is only 10/100 rated. I switched mine out for linksys gigabit one and BINGO - now i'm gigabit.

Any chance of a network diagram?
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lol - if it was less than 90m I doubt it was because the cable was 10/100 rated - it was probably poorly crimped or something
 
Aren't you still going to have to removed the cat6 and replace it with solid core cat6 when you decorate and fit wall plugs? Regardless, hopefully that will solve the problem for the time being.

If you are ever going to fit any network cables or have any kind of wired networking in your house shell out a few quid (they are under a fiver) for a cable tester. They are very useful indeed and good for working out the cause of problems like this. I recently wired my house and was getting 100mb on a PC that should have been gigabit and it turned out the cable I had connected the pc to the wall socket with was the problem, annoying as it was a brand new one supplied by my ISP with my router. Lesson learned, don't use **** free cables and a network cable tester is well worth the tiny financial outlay.

Dave
 
pumaz said:
I've decided to go with Cat6 UTP snaggless cables, it's costing me less than £50 inc. for 2 x 15m, 2 x 5m, 8 x 1m and 2 x 0.5m cables. These will replace every single lead I have and as they're Cat6 I'm kind of guaranteed 1 Gigabit as long as I have Gigabit capable devices ( which I have)
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For not much more money you could buy a box of cable, crimps and ends?
 
Update..

Cables arrived today, did a dry run and plugged one end of the cable into bedroom pc and other in to router and can confirm a 1 Gigabit connection :)

The cables are quite rigid but feel decent quality although the inflexibility of the 0.5m cables might be a problem!

I'll wire it all up tomorrow as I finish work early...
 
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