Is my house cabling ducked?

Just to clarify those cable test results dont necessarily imply a 'break' in the conventional sense of the word. Its probably just poor workmanship at the faceplates.
Might be worth removing the faceplates yourself and checking all pairs are kroned in. I have come across a vast number of installations where cables weren't punched down sufficiently to break the cable sheath.
 
Right...

I've tried the laptop physically wired to the switch with the cable I have running from the PC to the RJ45 socket (upstairs) and also the cable I use from the RJ45 socket downstrairs both times the laptop connects at 1000MPS.

I've also tried disabling the network connection and trying the second network connection on my mobo (it comes with two).

Hope that provides the answers your looking for if not I'm around all day so will be able to post fairly quickly :-)

Thanks for your help chaps - much appreciated ;)


Well that rules out any cabling faults.
What mobo have you got?
 
Well that rules out any cabling faults.
What mobo have you got?

Simon114 said:
Hi all,

Just carried out the Laptop in place of my PC test and it still shows 100mps - So my conclusion is its the wire between the RJ45 sockets (behind the wall), sods law its the one thing I can't actually do myself

Pepp77 think you may be right with this one mate...

I've just run a Realtek Ethernat Diagnostic utility cable test and it shows the following result...

Linkspeed: unlinked

Pair Length (m) Status

1-2 32 Normal
3-6 32 Normal
4-5 13 Open
7-8 32 Normal


Does this mean that I have a break in the cable for Pair 4-5?

Thanks again

;)
 
Sorry skim reading really doesnt help.
As stated previously just make sure the cable is terminated correctly at both faceplates.
 
Yeah good advice above. Take the face plates off at each end and inspect. Recut and crimp the cable at both ends and retest, I bet it will then start working.

EDIT: And to all those that say you don't need Gigabit ethernet. Erm...I can think of atleast 3 reasons that I want a gigabit lan as opposed to a 100mbit.
 
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