RE: Networking problems.

["Richard Leslie'Vir'" <r.leslie@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Seems like cross talk in :
The cable, the terminations, the supplied sockets,
Quick solution professional LAN tester or
http://www.bitzenbytes.com/101/n112-cat5.htm

Richard

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stuart Grimshaw [mailto:stuart@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 12 May 2004 10:45
> To: ukha list
> Subject: [ukha_d] Networking problems.
>
>
> Hi Guys,
>
> Just a follow up question to Umar's the other day.
>
> To recap, he's had some network cable fitted to his new
> house, approx. 70 points on each floor. Currently only the
> 1st floor is patched in.
>
> Out of the 12 points he has tested so far (by plugging a PC
> in and trying to connect to a device in node 0), 1 works, 1
> has tremendous packet loss & the rest all fail.
>
> All these points test OK with a basic flashing light network
> tester, ie all cables are pin2pin and none appear to be broken.
>
> The origional wireing was faulty, with wires crossed and all
> sorts, his sparky has rewired the faulty sockets, at the
> socket end I beleive.
>
> We have eliminated interference from the electrics as he ran
> an extension from downstairs and switched off all the
> electrics upstairs, same problem. The electrics from
> downstairs are totally seperate from the network cable upstairs.
>
> He took a cable from the back of the patch panel & put a plug
> on the end of it and plugged that straight into the hub,
> still nothing, so that to my mind rules out a faulty patch panel.
>
> Is there a maximum number of cables you should bunch
> together? All cables enter node 0 via the same very large
> hole, and the bunch is the size of a tree trunk!!
>
> Umar, do you have any photo's of that to demonstrate?
>
> Any other ideas? I'm stumped.
>
> --
>
> -S
>
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