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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.
Don't get me wrong, it's not that I don't want to try it, I just don't know how I could ?
I will open a ticket to the support to see what they can do, I'm not even sure if replacing the switch with another is going to fix any issues, I'll see what they going to recommend me
If I understood correctly, the problem should be that my CAT-6 cable, from the router into the switch, is working as expected with my computer, but the switch think it is not correct ?
I could try to move the switch next to the router and perform another test with other cables, see if this is the problem
lucas_m wrote:
If I understood correctly, the problem should be that my CAT-6 cable, from the router into the switch, is working as expected with my computer, but the switch think it is not correct ?
I could try to move the switch next to the router and perform another test with other cables, see if this is the problem
that's what I asked earlier. to move the switch next to the router. And try a couple different 6ft cables to try.
Some computers can compensate a little more for sketchy cables than unmanaged switches can.
Did the best, worked well, so my cable is the problem.
Do you have any solutions for this ? I could try to recrimp the cable maybe
I'm still surprised the switch recognize my cable as sketchy, how can it even recognize that ?
Its usually just a power/frequency issue that its not quite up to spec on because of the crimping.
I'd just redo the ends and try it. most times thats the issue.
You can mark it as solved and it might help the next person with that issue :)
What do you mean by "redo-ing the ends" ?
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 see, thanks for your help, it was really helpful :smileyhappy:
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