Network Died Overnight

Tesla

Tesla

Tesla

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Hi,

I have a relatively simple network.

Cable modem connected to a Linksys BEFSR41 wired router.

One cable then feeds the office (the room that the router is in anyway) one cable then goes off to one bedroom and then another relatively long run to a different bedroom.

Now, I was using the internet with no issues last night. Use it this morning around 9:30 and nothing on my connection.

The office and other bedroom are working faultlessly as per usual.

My bedroom computer reports network cable unplugged and the LED one the front of the router is flashing slowly.

The LED on the back of the PC is not lit up at all.

I was thinking that perhaps the cable has somehow randomly failed, but why would the Router LED be slowly flashing? When nothing is connected the router LED is off.

Any ideas as to what could or has happened?

Cheers,

Chris
 
did you make the cable yourself?, any major kinks or has it been squashed anywhere along the line?

sounds like 1 or more of the 8 cables in side are broken, you can get a simple cat 5 cable tester for like £10 these days, this should let you know where the problem is.

hope this helps :)
 
Yes, that's what I was thinking but it's odd as I was the last to go to bed.

Unless the cable has come into contact with a hot pipe?

It's a 10m run spanning across the house, under the flooring.
 
had a similar probelm wiring up my house, to begin with I had a rubbish krone tool and I'd terminate the ends correctly the router was happy enough with nice green link light. But the computer wasn't happy "network cable unpluged"

brought a new krone tool and a cheap cable tester which allowed me to see what pair was actually broken

and there, problem sorted :)
 
Well I have no idea where the break in the cable is as it runs under the flooring.

Am I right in thinking that only the orange and blue pairs are used?

I need to find somewhere to buy a big drum of CAT5, a crimper, preferably a CAT5 stapler too. Likely a test tool aswell.

How does stripping the cable work? Does the crimper do it?
 
mine doesn't...I cut into it a tiny bit and find the string inside the cable and pull that back to strip it, I don't know about the orange and blue pairs being used...I just crimp them all :D
 
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