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sgfrantz   10-20-2009 at 07:11:55 PM

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?

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SAINT19   10-21-2009 at 03:30:08 PM

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

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sgfrantz   10-21-2009 at 06:19:57 PM

sgfrantz wrote :

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?

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SAINT19   10-21-2009 at 06:39:44 PM

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.

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