cerebros
Prominent Member
Hi everyone
As part of my lounge redecoration, which is unfortunately taking ages, I've had the sparks run some Cat6 cabling in the walls within the lounge (as well as to the kitchen and two cables to the roof, although he's got to come back to finish wiring the loft ones up).
The cabling he's installed in the lounge runs between faceplates in different areas of the lounge - four ports in one area where I'm going to have a desktop and networked printers in future, four ports in another area where my AV gear and my Virgin router are, and one port on the wall behind the settee. All traffic is being routed through a to-link TL-SG1024D switch.
The sparks has definitely used Cat6 cable and he's definitely used Cat6 modules on the wall faceplates (I watched him wire up some of the connections), and I've purchased Cat6 patch leads to connect devices between the wall plates and switch, but I'm not getting gigabit connect connection speeds from any capable devices (testing my laptop and Synology DS414j NAS)
If I connect devices directly to the switch I get gigabit speeds. If I connect the ports the laptop and NAS are linked to into the Virgin router (which has 4 gigabit ports itself), I still only get 100Mbps (if I connect the laptop and NAS directly to the Virgin router's ports I get 1Gbps)
So, I'm satisfied that there's not a problem with the switch or devices that I expect to be able to run at gigabit speed. That just leaves the wiring and faceplates.
Due to the length of time the job's taken, I'd already noticed the issue and informed the sparks of the issues, so when he was round on Saturday to carry on with the job he brought a network tester (think it was one of these PHILEX Remote Network Cable Tester - Philex Electronics Ltd) and checked the connections and the tester appeared to be indicating valid connections (lights were running all the way up to 8). Unfortunately due to a number of issues I've only had a chance to sit down and check my actual connection speeds tonight and found I'm still only getting 100Mbps when I'm connected.
Any ideas what's going on?
As part of my lounge redecoration, which is unfortunately taking ages, I've had the sparks run some Cat6 cabling in the walls within the lounge (as well as to the kitchen and two cables to the roof, although he's got to come back to finish wiring the loft ones up).
The cabling he's installed in the lounge runs between faceplates in different areas of the lounge - four ports in one area where I'm going to have a desktop and networked printers in future, four ports in another area where my AV gear and my Virgin router are, and one port on the wall behind the settee. All traffic is being routed through a to-link TL-SG1024D switch.
The sparks has definitely used Cat6 cable and he's definitely used Cat6 modules on the wall faceplates (I watched him wire up some of the connections), and I've purchased Cat6 patch leads to connect devices between the wall plates and switch, but I'm not getting gigabit connect connection speeds from any capable devices (testing my laptop and Synology DS414j NAS)
If I connect devices directly to the switch I get gigabit speeds. If I connect the ports the laptop and NAS are linked to into the Virgin router (which has 4 gigabit ports itself), I still only get 100Mbps (if I connect the laptop and NAS directly to the Virgin router's ports I get 1Gbps)
So, I'm satisfied that there's not a problem with the switch or devices that I expect to be able to run at gigabit speed. That just leaves the wiring and faceplates.
Due to the length of time the job's taken, I'd already noticed the issue and informed the sparks of the issues, so when he was round on Saturday to carry on with the job he brought a network tester (think it was one of these PHILEX Remote Network Cable Tester - Philex Electronics Ltd) and checked the connections and the tester appeared to be indicating valid connections (lights were running all the way up to 8). Unfortunately due to a number of issues I've only had a chance to sit down and check my actual connection speeds tonight and found I'm still only getting 100Mbps when I'm connected.
Any ideas what's going on?