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Hi everyone,
Right up until last night my network in my house was working fine no problems. I have my server and PC in my spare bedroom upstairs and my media pc downstairs. PC and server are cat6 cabled ( 2m max ) to a netgear GS605 gigabit switch, then the media pc is cat5e cable downstairs (about 20m )
So was watching a 1080p film downstairs last night, which hasent been a problem before, and it started stuttering quite a lot. So checked codecs and all was ok, also checked if the network was connected at 1Gbs which it was. Then I tried to copy the file over the network and watch it locally on the pc and it wouldnt transfer more than 3MBs. Tried rebooting all pcs and switches several times but no different. Tried this morning copying from server to my PC upstairs and that was fine hitting 60-70MBs but on the same file the media pc downstairs and still 3Mbs max. All drivers up to date, also tried my laptop on the cable going to the media pc (which is gigabit too) and that was only hitting 1-2Mbs.
Sorry for the post but can anyone shed any light on this? Is it likely the cable is damaged under the carpet, although the connection is still there?
Thanks
Right up until last night my network in my house was working fine no problems. I have my server and PC in my spare bedroom upstairs and my media pc downstairs. PC and server are cat6 cabled ( 2m max ) to a netgear GS605 gigabit switch, then the media pc is cat5e cable downstairs (about 20m )
So was watching a 1080p film downstairs last night, which hasent been a problem before, and it started stuttering quite a lot. So checked codecs and all was ok, also checked if the network was connected at 1Gbs which it was. Then I tried to copy the file over the network and watch it locally on the pc and it wouldnt transfer more than 3MBs. Tried rebooting all pcs and switches several times but no different. Tried this morning copying from server to my PC upstairs and that was fine hitting 60-70MBs but on the same file the media pc downstairs and still 3Mbs max. All drivers up to date, also tried my laptop on the cable going to the media pc (which is gigabit too) and that was only hitting 1-2Mbs.
Sorry for the post but can anyone shed any light on this? Is it likely the cable is damaged under the carpet, although the connection is still there?
Thanks
Time for a new switch I think. Its just weird that the pc upstairs is ok.