I went over to a friends house today to run some wire for 100mb ethernet... We put the cable modem in a central location in the basement, then ran lengths of cat5e to 3 different rooms. Longest run was about 50 feet, shortest run about 20 feet. For some reason, I can only get these connections working at 10mb/half duplex.. if I set it to anything else, the computer recognizes the speed, but never sees the cable router.
Anyone got any ideas what I did wrong? I wired all cables from the router as 1-8 1-8 (Straight through), and crimped them. Is this not correct? If I plug in using a pre-made cable directly into the router downstairs, everything works fine at 100/full. Just the cables I made will not work. The cable I used was AT&T gigabit cable (Cat5e rated), and standard 8 pin rj-45 plugs.
Any ideas here?
Anyone got any ideas what I did wrong? I wired all cables from the router as 1-8 1-8 (Straight through), and crimped them. Is this not correct? If I plug in using a pre-made cable directly into the router downstairs, everything works fine at 100/full. Just the cables I made will not work. The cable I used was AT&T gigabit cable (Cat5e rated), and standard 8 pin rj-45 plugs.
Any ideas here?