Q: Howdy,
Was house of a friend a year or so ago, helped him with a network problem. He got a new computer and it was with difficulty on the network. It was a long run of this particular computer to the router (first floor to the basement to the attic chimney area and then to the second floor room with the router) connected
It all was good, but just want to say cable every time I try to get a signal. It worked fine with their old computer so I NIC tool from the old computer and put it in the new computer and lo and behold it connected fine. I just thought the built-in network card might not be strong enough to work with such a long cable run. Now I spoke to him yesterday and he said that the computer is the cable fault again to do but he has not changed anything.
I show tonight on the head for a look, but she thought I get some advice first. Could it be the NIC has just died and needs replacing? Is it more likely something wrong with the wiring? I thought about seeing if he wanted the cable modem / router to the basement to move even more centralized and sorting of the cable runs, but not sure he will want that.
I him to a different NIC with me just in case . I think we soon find out enough.
Thanks.
Best Answer: They are the same. They will both connect at a maximum speed of 54 mbs. Although a PCI slot is faster than a USB port as far as getting the data to the processor.
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Re:Most Cities' building codes prohibit the use of air ducts and ventalation shafts (ie chminey) as conduit for wire.
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Re:guy:
STP should be avoided at any / all costs, especially for the novice installer. it adds nothing except unnecessary complexity and if done improperly (which it is, most of the time) is worse than flat, grey phone wire. If someone PAID you to take it it would STILL be a bad deal.
There is no situation at home that would ever require screened UTP or STP. -NONE – ZERO – ZIP –
The amount of toxins produced by a little UTP compared to the the volumes of toxins produced with everything else burning is trivial. A commercial environment is a different setting … it make more sense …
FWIW
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Re:never run wire through a duct or chimney since the insulator will release toxic fume into the home or office.
Try using Shielded Twisted Pair cable (STP) instead of UTP (unshielded twisted pair), it may help. Also special cable is made for harsh or rough envoroments where heat and emf may be a probelm. Cat5 is good to about 300 meters.
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Re:Originally posted by: FrankyJunior
Well, went over there last night and replaced the ends on their 130' cable and it decided it would start working again. Saved them having to re-run a cable that goes through their attic, chimney, basement, etc….
Sometimes the easy fixes are nice. heh.
heh, wouldn't be the first time.
generally hand crimped ends on a network cable can and frequently do go bad. If possible put the end into keyston jacks
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Re:Well, went over there last night and replaced the ends on their 130' cable and it decided it would start working again. Saved them having to re-run a cable that goes through their attic, chimney, basement, etc….
Sometimes the easy fixes are nice. heh.
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Re:Well, looks like the cable (or at least one of the connectors) is having issues. Hooked up out scanner thing and it only liked wires 1 and 2. 3 – 6 didn't evne show up and 7 and 8 were reversed. Stupid electricians….
The end looks like it got stepped on or something because the plastic parts where the metal connectors are is all bent up. Going to take some new ends over there tomorrow and see if that solves the issue.
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Re:I'm going to bring along a tester thingie that traces the cable to see if anything is connected wrong so we can rule that out as well.
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Re:you would have some pairs swapped or out of order. Some nics will internally switch the tip/ring internally (this is the indiviual wires of a pair).
Reterminate both ends of the cable according to 568b standards
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Re:Check for cable damage, especially near the chimney area (if it gets hot).
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