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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.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but we can easily conclude from these 2 tests that the switch is, in fact, the problem
Sadly you can't. I've seen devices that are more sensitive to cable quality than others. Some tolerate lower power/bandwidth connections better than others. Which is why sometimes a cable tester will show a line as fine and it not work at gigabit speeds for other devices.
Thing is that every cable used are capable of transmitting 950mbps, they have been tested one by one on a direct link with the router
lucas_m wrote:
Thing is that every cable used are capable of transmitting 950mbps, they have been tested one by one on a direct link with the router
Sure. router to computer. and maybe the switch is more sensitive. If you don't want to try it, fine. I'm not going to argue it with you. then either return your switch or open a support case. there isn't much else to test with a simple unmanaged switch.
But they're going to ask you to try the same steps to ensure it isn't a cable issue.
To get a hold of support. Click on "MyNetgear" at the top.
Register an account (or login) and then the device.
From there you can start the support process. Keep in mind that its only free for the first 90 days.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
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