Hi,
I laid a 75-foot length of Cat5e cable from my Linksys WRT350N router to my media center PC I just built using Windows 7. I get only 100mbs speed even though the same PC connected to the same port with a commercial 12-foot patch cable gives me 1.0Gbs speed. I get only 10.0 mbs with my son's laptop running Vista.
I had attached the RJ-45 connectors to each end myself so I thought maybe I didn't do so good a job since I'm kind-of new at this. (Although two other connectors I installed for two other ports on the router - each about 6-ft long supply 1.0Gbs.)
I tried then to use a wall plate on each end of the cable and use 6-ft patch cables. This did not help. There are no electrical wires going parallel to the network cable. There is one place where it crosses electrical wires and a 10-12 ft length that runs close to a speaker wire but the speaker is not connected to anything.
Anyone have any suggestions? Are all 8 wires in a Cat5e cable in use? I had a similar problem with the phone wire going from the telco box to my router that I fixed by switching from using the blue/blue-white to the green/green-white. Those wires are so thin it is conceivable one may have broken while threading the 75-foot length through walls etc.
One more thing, my problem is not just speed. The Windows 7 machine has trouble identifying the network and internet speed is extremely slow.
Thanks very much in advance.
I laid a 75-foot length of Cat5e cable from my Linksys WRT350N router to my media center PC I just built using Windows 7. I get only 100mbs speed even though the same PC connected to the same port with a commercial 12-foot patch cable gives me 1.0Gbs speed. I get only 10.0 mbs with my son's laptop running Vista.
I had attached the RJ-45 connectors to each end myself so I thought maybe I didn't do so good a job since I'm kind-of new at this. (Although two other connectors I installed for two other ports on the router - each about 6-ft long supply 1.0Gbs.)
I tried then to use a wall plate on each end of the cable and use 6-ft patch cables. This did not help. There are no electrical wires going parallel to the network cable. There is one place where it crosses electrical wires and a 10-12 ft length that runs close to a speaker wire but the speaker is not connected to anything.
Anyone have any suggestions? Are all 8 wires in a Cat5e cable in use? I had a similar problem with the phone wire going from the telco box to my router that I fixed by switching from using the blue/blue-white to the green/green-white. Those wires are so thin it is conceivable one may have broken while threading the 75-foot length through walls etc.
One more thing, my problem is not just speed. The Windows 7 machine has trouble identifying the network and internet speed is extremely slow.
Thanks very much in advance.