In article , urd3
@bitrot.co.uk says...


Cat-5 is sturdy enough, but probably a bit lighter than your sparks was
used to, especially since they are almost certainly solid core. Putting
too tight bends or bending them too often could get you snapped cores.
But again, you say the network tester said it was OK. (Aside: if anybody
needs one, try this - it's simple but it works well and costs almost
nothing:
http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.4439)

So if all the wiring is OK, that leaves... nothing.

Except for the problem already identified in this thread...

That type of tester will only tell if you have random wires on the same
pins at each end, not whether you have use the correct wires from the
twisted pairs onto the correct socket pins. It indicats all is fine if
the cable is basic muti-wire alarm cable instead of Cat5

The place I used to work was wired using Cat5. (As a foreigner by a
local BT installer.) He had installed the pairs 1-2, 3-4, 5-6 & 7-8,
which would have been fine on your tester. It worked until we started
using 100Mbps and auto speed detect devices...
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