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PESE
Jul 31, 2020Aspirant
1000/100mbps in, 735 mbps from router and 94mbps from switch GS105E!?
My internet provider (Hiper) delivers 1.190mbps (download) into my house via coax. Approx. 735 mbps is sent on from the router (SagemCom F@ST 3890V3 WU also provided by Hiper) via approx. 5 m cat6 to...
- Aug 01, 2020
PESE wrote:My internet provider (Hiper) delivers 1.190mbps (download) into my house via coax. Approx. 735 mbps is sent on from the router (SagemCom F@ST 3890V3 WU also provided by Hiper)
Lot of loss already, ok, might be caused by the "best effort" policy in place on consumer connections, or related to the asymmetric speed.
PESE wrote:From here approx 95 mbps is delivered from any of the output ports.
Reads like there is a link in the data path operating at 100 Mbit/s link speed only.
PESE wrote:In the Insight app, where I can manage the switch, in the port status it is stated, that all 5 ports are up, speed is auto, linked speed is 1000M on port 1-4, and no more than 100M on port 5
What is connected to this port #5 - the link to the modem/router?
PESE wrote:...100M on port 5 (and I can't change that myself)?
Perfectly correct - automatic link speed negotiation is mandatory on Gigabit and faster Ethernet links. Fixing to link rates of 1000M and up is illegal, this is why Netgear does not offer this control option.
Try a diffeent cable. Check and clean the contacts if required, ... Typical cause for 100M only are not four pairs propery wired on the cable(s). Auto negotiation are very uncommon nowadays, but still exist.
schumaku
Aug 01, 2020Guru - Experienced User
PESE wrote:My internet provider (Hiper) delivers 1.190mbps (download) into my house via coax. Approx. 735 mbps is sent on from the router (SagemCom F@ST 3890V3 WU also provided by Hiper)
Lot of loss already, ok, might be caused by the "best effort" policy in place on consumer connections, or related to the asymmetric speed.
PESE wrote:From here approx 95 mbps is delivered from any of the output ports.
Reads like there is a link in the data path operating at 100 Mbit/s link speed only.
PESE wrote:In the Insight app, where I can manage the switch, in the port status it is stated, that all 5 ports are up, speed is auto, linked speed is 1000M on port 1-4, and no more than 100M on port 5
What is connected to this port #5 - the link to the modem/router?
PESE wrote:...100M on port 5 (and I can't change that myself)?
Perfectly correct - automatic link speed negotiation is mandatory on Gigabit and faster Ethernet links. Fixing to link rates of 1000M and up is illegal, this is why Netgear does not offer this control option.
Try a diffeent cable. Check and clean the contacts if required, ... Typical cause for 100M only are not four pairs propery wired on the cable(s). Auto negotiation are very uncommon nowadays, but still exist.
- PESEAug 02, 2020Aspirant
Hi Schumaku,
Thanks for taking your time to dig into this. I have tested all ports on the switch and all ports on the router ending up with the same, heartbreaking result ...98mbps despite the fact, that the cable from the router to the switch delivered +700mbps. So ...I found an old cat 5E cable and connected it between the router and the switch and ...got instantly +650 mbps (instead of 98mbps). How the h... a cat 6 cable providing + 700 mbps to the switch impacts the flow that negative is a puzzle to me. And the only cable of them all built into my wall now has to be exchanged with a new one ...
Kudos to you, cases solved - thanks!
- schumakuAug 02, 2020Guru - Experienced User
PESE wrote:And the only cable of them all built into my wall now has to be exchanged with a new one ...
Look into the installation first - a CAT5A cable with four working pairs, eight strands, properly crimped, .... should allow the negotiation to a Gigabit link.
- PESEAug 02, 2020AspirantOh yes. Cat5A works, but it’s an old cable and still to be hidden in the wall. So ... as it the very first part my network (and built in), I’d rather like it to cat7 ...future-proof.
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