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1. lrmoore 68,915
2. JFrederic... 45,300
3. donjohnston 42,748
4. from_exp 42,502
5. kdearing 41,313
6. mikebernh... 40,890
7. that1guy15 34,652
8. RobWill 27,950
9. harbor235 25,320
10. DevilWAH 18,918
11. ebjers 18,750
12. _jesper_ 17,775
13. bkepford 15,400
14. tigermatt 15,000
15. giltjr 13,674
16. donmanrobb 13,415
17. Quori 13,300
18. uetian1707 13,219
19. pseudocy... 13,050
20. ryansoto 10,600
21. tfowles 10,500
22. naughton 10,175
23. Darr247 8,700
24. logic2 8,300
24. Pugglewu... 8,300

1. lrmoore 130,479
2. donjohnston 65,968
3. mikebernh... 49,640
4. JFrederic... 49,100
5. from_exp 46,702
6. kdearing 41,313
7. RobWill 37,750
8. that1guy15 36,402
9. harbor235 31,920
10. pseudocy... 25,521
11. _jesper_ 21,775
12. ebjers 20,750
13. DevilWAH 19,918
14. giltjr 19,774
15. uetian1707 16,919
16. KCTS 16,368
17. bkepford 15,400
18. tigermatt 15,000
19. keith_ala... 13,789
20. donmanrobb 13,415
21. Quori 13,300
22. leew 12,268
23. batry_boy 11,695
24. ryansoto 10,600
25. tfowles 10,500

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Cat6 Cable not Working on Cat5 Network

Asked by ComfortablyNumb in Network Design & Methodology, Miscellaneous Networking, Networking Cables

Tags: Systimax, Cat6 Gigaspeed XL Ethernet Cable

Bought an end of reel of above cable from Ebay to wire the living room for video streaming. My network is all Cat5 100Mbit. My thinking was that the cable was good quality so would get good throughput even though it would only be at 100Mbit and have a bit of futureproofing too.

I have wired two cables, both terminated with standard Cat5 RJ45s as follows:
Brown/White
Blue/White
Green/White
Orange/White

I have tested both cables with a network tester and both register as OK. However, connect the cables to the network and they don't work despite sockets lighting up on devices and the switch acknowledging the connection. No data transfer at all

I really thought that so long as pin 1 etc are the same at both ends (its only wire) it should just work, albeit at 100Mbit. However, I'm beginning to think that my assumption was incorrect.

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Cat6 Cable not Working on Cat5 Network

Asked by ComfortablyNumb in Network Design & Methodology, Miscellaneous Networking, Networking Cables

Tags: Systimax, Cat6 Gigaspeed XL Ethernet Cable

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