[NBLUG/talk] CAT-5 and Ethernet question

Micxz (lovedialup.com) an_email at micxz.com
Mon Jul 21 10:47:01 PDT 2003


Todd Cary wrote:
> 
> As many of you know from my previous posts to this list, I was having
> communication problems with Samba: very slow in one direction only.
> After moving some cables around and re-seating all connections, the
> problem apears to have gone away.  My question is about CAT-5
> connections and 100 base-T.
> 
> Could the problem have been a "poor" connection with one of the pairs in
> the CAT-5 wiring?  Could this explain "slow" communication in one direction?
> 
> Incidentally, the NIC is built into the motherboard.
> 
> I like to have in my mind a reasonable explanation for the problem and
> the apparent fix.
> 
> Todd
> --

At my last job at raspberrymedia we went through CAT cable very often.
It was because we had cheap CAT-5. 

Surely this has been your problem if you replaced the cable and now it
works fast!

Micxz



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