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GS305 Switch capping at 100mbps
I recently bought a little, un-managed switch for a simple use case. There is a first cable (CAT6, like all the others cable I will speak about) going from my Internet Router into the 5th port of th...
Climp them off and recrimp on new ones. all it takes is one pin to be bad/sketchy to cause issues.
Its not usually the cable that's bad.
i would be checking the cable supplying the switch. Many times a sketchy cable will drop speeds from gigabit to 10/100mbps.
So start with replacing the ethernet cables.
Thanks for you answer.
The cable are ran through wall, so it's not that easy to replace. The switch is almost sealed in an eletric box, not easy to access too. I sincerely doubt the problem being the cable, if it was, the main cable, from the router, would be the bottleneck, but it has been working for like 10 days, and as I said, it is "sealed" into the wall.
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