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I'm attempting to improve our home network. My office is up front and my wife's is in back. We've got concrete and brick construction here so the Wi-Fi doesn't transmit well from front to back. Anyway, I've a second connection point I wanted to install in her office and ran a 90 foot (give or take) cable back there. Had to drill through a couple of walls to run it and tacked it up along the way. I double checked my RJ-45 connections to ensure I had the same sequence in both ends - but when I plug it in I get a flashing light at the router and a "cable unplugged" on her computer (I felt it easier to test on her machine before I start messing with the wireless access point)
Any suggestions on what to look for? Probable problems? Should I just go ahead and redo the connections? I looked up maximum length on Cat 5 cable and it's listed at 100 METERS - over three times longer than my less than 100 FOOT length. And due to the route and distance I've no way to check the individual wires via multitest tool. I've redone the connections once already and got the same problem. Sure hope I don't have to pull it all out so am hoping someone might have a better idea to try first.
Thanks!
Paul - in Pereira
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Since you don't have a cable-tester, take all 3 components put them in the same room and connect them up with a commercial cable.
If they work, the problem is your cable. You either have an internal break caused by a kink or you don't have the RJ45s wired right.
If it doesn't work, then you have a bad NIC or router.
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Old Ironsights wrote:If they work, the problem is your cable. You either have an internal break caused by a kink or you don't have the RJ45s wired right.
Thanks, OI. The individual components work. That is, I ran shorter cables via a network hub and had a connection working, but I wanted to improve the situation and eliminate the midpoint hub. It sounds like I'm gonna have to do what I don' wanna do and pull the bloomin' cable and test it for continuity and or shorts. It's brand new so can't imagine having a break somewhere but anything's possible I guess.
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I've run shorter cables to another room and made up tiny cables for patching modem, router, etc together with zero issues. Of course it would be the 90 footer that causes problems... such is life. Where's Murphy when you wanna smack 'im up side the head?
Paul - in Pereira
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The only thing I can add is make positively sure that the cat 5 isn't stapled too tight. If it's tight, believe it or not, the constriction of staples will impede the continuity.If you must staple, use 25A staples or the new T59 insulated staples. I work for Verizon and we do businesses alot with cat 5. Most runs in a typical business are between 100-250 ft, with 5 runs per business customer average. Also without a Bite Brothers tester you will have to test each strand with a digital multimeter. You should see less than 0.01 ohms at that 100 ft distance. Hope this helps. Tom
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Paul,if you can stand the wait, I can send you a cable tester... I think it cost me $15 so if there is a problemin shipping it's no great loss...
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CEMENTHEAD wrote:The only thing I can add is make positively sure that the cat 5 isn't stapled too tight. If it's tight, believe it or not, the constriction of staples will impede the continuity.If you must staple, use 25A staples or the new T59 insulated staples. I work for Verizon and we do businesses alot with cat 5. Most runs in a typical business are between 100-250 ft, with 5 runs per business customer average. Also without a Bite Brothers tester you will have to test each strand with a digital multimeter. You should see less than 0.01 ohms at that 100 ft distance. Hope this helps. Tom
Hmmm... Ill have to take a look. I'm using plastic thingies with hardened steel nails to hold them. It's kind of a plastic half circle designed to hold the cable in place and I used two sizes. I'll take another look, maybe loosen up a few if they seem tight.
Paul - in Pereira
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Old Ironsights wrote:Paul,if you can stand the wait, I can send you a cable tester... I think it cost me $15 so if there is a problemin shipping it's no great loss...
OI, that's an item I've been wanting to pic up for some time, just never have found one at a price I wanted to pay when up in the US. Never have seen one here. Yes I'd be interested, but don't know what shipping might cost clear down here. PM on the way.
Paul - in Pereira
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Hey Paul, you can use those as well, as long as they don't touch the cat 5. They should be COMPLETELY free. My .02$, Thanks, Tom