Got caught by the flippin' Reply-To: again. Sorry
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Subject: Re: [OT] LAN cable tester in Christchurch to borrow please Date: Sat, 06 Mar 2004 21:12 From: Christopher Sawtell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sat, 06 Mar 2004 18:00, Yuri de Groot wrote:
Hi,
Does anyone have an advanced LAN cable tester I can borrow
in Chch?
I have one that tests each of the 8 strands for electrical
conductivity, but it does not test ability to carry ethernet
traffic - if ya know wha I mean.
I came across a very similar situation to your's a while ago. After much confusion with very odd intermittent faults it transpired that the poorly put together Ethernet wiring would happily carry 10MHz signals, but not 100MHz. Sometimes the net worked ok as a 10MHz net, at others it failed as a 100MHz. We were confused for quite a while. After rewireing it properly, it worked perfectly.
The point of the story is that it might be worth your while putting an old
10MHz card in one of the machines to force your net to run at 10MHz. If it
works at the lower frequency, then that more or less proves that you have
problems with noise on the cable run.
What can cause noise on network cables? I'm interested because I spend a bit of my time each week dealing with problems in a network of about 60 computers spread over two sites. We have had a complete failure of a 16 port network switch, but we have also had ongoing problems with one particular printer on the network that people seem to have recurring loss of connectivity to. I'm planning to do some more tests with a 10Mbps hub instead of a 100Mbps switch at that location.
