- Feb 24, 2014
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Ok- Long story short - my office is in my back yard. I have direct burial Cat5e around the whole perimeter of the property and feeding into my office. Two nights ago I started getting interruptions in my internet. It would work for awhile then cut out, then work again. For some genius reason I thought it was my ethernet cable - I had crimped them on the copper wires and not grabbed the sleeve. Even those this same cable had worked for two years - I clipped it while still plugged into the router and rebuilt the end. Since then I have not been able to connect to my router. I keep getting the yellow warning sign in my taskbar alerting me that the network cannot be found.
So I went to Microcenter and bought a LAN Cable tester. I've rebuilt the cable end in my office about 8 times. Every time I run the cable tester #6 doesn't light. It goes through every other light in the set of 8 just fine. Always #6.
Ran a giant 100ft cable across my backyard from my office to my router - works perfect. So I know it's not my Ethernet adapter.
Can cat5e cable just "go bad"? Is that a thing? What am I missing here?
Any advice/help would be greatly appreciated. I'm tearing my hair out over here.
-jeremy
So I went to Microcenter and bought a LAN Cable tester. I've rebuilt the cable end in my office about 8 times. Every time I run the cable tester #6 doesn't light. It goes through every other light in the set of 8 just fine. Always #6.
Ran a giant 100ft cable across my backyard from my office to my router - works perfect. So I know it's not my Ethernet adapter.
Can cat5e cable just "go bad"? Is that a thing? What am I missing here?
Any advice/help would be greatly appreciated. I'm tearing my hair out over here.
-jeremy
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