Sloooooooooow CAT 5 performance

Smokie · Post by **Smokie** » Mon May 14, 2001 7:21 pm

I just came back fomr home depot today, with 1,000mbit/sec CAT5 e cabling. This is my first attempt at networking, btw. Well, i got the cable and also bought a cable to crimp it to a male connector, and after crimping both sides of the 100 ft cable i decided to test it out by connecting one end to my nic and one end to my modem. Onced i hooked it up i went to my isp icon to conect, and it went into contact server mode and just dident get through that stage, so i hooked up my old cabling and got on the net. once i hooked back up the newly crimped cable i noticed that my connect was ULTRA SLOW!, i mean much slower than even my old 56k (dsl now). I was wondering if its slow cause of my bad crimping or slow b/c the cable is a 100 ft long and loses its strength. btw the modem showed that there was a ethernet connect between the modem and nic, so there is a connect.

Stef · Post by **Stef** » Mon May 14, 2001 7:52 pm

Your crimped connections must be bad, or you mixed up the pairs and threw the cable impedance out the window

BTW, you can run CAT 5 100 Metres without the use of a repeater.(that's way longer then 100 feet!!)

This link might help:
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Ethernet-HOWTO-5.html#ss5.2

sinunit · Post by **sinunit** » Thu May 17, 2001 9:28 pm

You can have up to 1.3 cm of exposed pairs, that is recommended by CISCO

IN4MER · Post by **IN4MER** » Fri May 18, 2001 12:15 am

Hey sup?,
1,000mbit/sec = 125MB/sec right? I hope your nic cards support the speed. Anyways, if you're using hub, speed will be slow...I think. I dunno... it's 12:22am...=\
Latez