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Cat6 pairs inner wires
I bought two 50 meter long cat6 cables. On the first one, each of inner wires of the pairs, was actually solid one wire while on the other it was like multiple hairs put together. Can someone give me ...
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Unable to Find Issue With New Network Setup
can someone find or guess whats wrong?
Equipment:
ISP CPE - Huawei HG8145V5
Switch in Office - TP Link TL-SG108E
Switch in Bedroom - TP-Link TL-SG105E
Wifi Router in Bedroom - TP Link Archer C20 (...
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How to disable the shield in shielded Cat8 ethernet cable?
I recently installed shielded Cat 8 ethernet cable in my house during unrelated renovations due to water damage that required opening up the walls. The electrician also installed shielded RJ45 Cat 8 ...
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How do I know if my RJ45 socket is compatible with CAT5e cables?
I have three, around 16-year-old RJ45 wall sockets in my house, and they were not used in more than a decade (I used Wi-Fi instead). I checked the cables in the wall and they are Cat 5 type, which ...
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How can I get full speed internet/Ethernet access to all rooms of my apartment
I have a 4 bedroom apartment and every person in those 4 bedrooms has multiple devices they want to hardwire such as desktops, Xbox, PlayStation, and laptops. Each person has 2-3 devices they want ...
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Is this color scheme another standard for RJ45 cable?
I'm trying to add a RJ45 connector to a Ethernet cable for a NVR system (Surveillance Cameras).
The cameras comes with ethernet cables and I see that the only have 4 cables used and in different ...
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What to do when led #3 & #5 don't lite up in cable tester
I have clamped my 1st network cable. It's a "Vega network cable FTP CAT6 4PR 23AWG TIA/EIA-568B ISO/IEC 11801 2017" cable. It's in my house (inside the walls) between 2 floors, installed (...
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What is the effect of using lower Cat# cables in a higher Cat# keystone jacks, when the versions are NOT backwards-compatable?
It is not recommended to use ethernet patch cable in a lower-grade keystone jack (wall outlet), unless there is known backward-compatibility, such as between Cat6 and Cat5e.
Is it acceptable to use ...
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CAT6A home wiring - 100mbps over series-connected runs - gigabit over standalone runs
Was hoping to avoid one posting another "100mbps over CAT6A" posts but here we are! Apologies for the length.
I'm currently running ethernet cables in a 1900s house (UK) as the walls and ...
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How to find one end of cat-5e cable hidden in a wall
I have a junction box in my house where seven cat 5E cables originate. The ends of the cables inside the junction box are all attached to a patch panel. I can only find four wall plates in the house ...
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Is it possible to interchange these two sockets since the cables in the wall look the same?
My Ethernet socket isn't working and I'm convinced it has to do with either the socket itself or the cable behind the wall. This picture of my wall sockets (the left the Ethernet socket, the right a ...
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Issue with network cable
We recently had a garden studio installed in our back garden and I asked them to lay a network cable (steel armoured) from the front of the house, where the main router is located, to the garden ...
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one switch works two don't- 35m cable
I am connecting my main ISP router to another router via a 35m ethernet cable, however, I have a connectivity problem, a bit long to explain so bear with me:
If I connect the cable between the ISP ...
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Can an ethernet cable on a reel be used at full speed?
I bought 100m of relatively cheap CAT6 FTP ethernet cable on a reel. For testing purposes, I installed RJ45 jacks on the ends to check whether it can be used at 1Gbps. Observing the lights on the ...
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Crimping my own cat5e cables connection issues
I bought bulk cat5e cable so I can do a poe security system.
I bought a tester and it shows my cable is good.
The problem I am running into is that I am testing my cable speed on my ps5.
When I plug ...
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