Cat6 vs cat5 cable

[sgfrantz]

When I try to utilize cat 6, I punch down both ends of the cable with the Cat5b specs, and when I plug it into my gigbit switch on one end and a 10/100 NIC on the other, it does not see it at all! Is this because it cannot reduce the speed for the NIC? Or should I be punching it down with another color coding?

 

[saint19]

cat5b specs? I think that you mean to the 568B specs, and check the code colors, maybe have some pair bad punching.

 

[sgfrantz]

When I try to utilize cat 6, I punch down both ends of the cable with the Cat5b specs, and when I plug it into my gigbit switch on one end and a 10/100 NIC on the other, it does not see it at all! Is this because it cannot reduce the speed for the NIC? Or should I be punching it down with another color coding?

Yes, I meant 568B. And yes, the bunching was a possibility, but I punched them down repeatedly, put them on a loopback tester and they were fine. Did yet another google search and found that the cat 6 cable is only gigabit and won't communicate with many 10/100 nic cards. Do you agree with this?

 

[saint19]

No, i'm not agree, one thing is that the cat6 support gigabit ethernet and other COMPLETELY DIFFERENT is that only works with gigabit. Configure your switch for some port work to 10/100 and try again.