On Mon, Mar 08, 2010 at 08:40:01PM -0800, Michael Robinson wrote: > I have 100 feet of Cat 5e UTP cable wired from my server running into > an attic area. After that, a crossover coupler and 90 feet of Cat5e > STP cable follows. The client computer has a 100 mbps Netgear Fa311, > but the server is limited to 10 mbps because I historically could not > get a stable link at 100 mbps.
OK, that's a bad sign right there. Your cable (or maybe NIC or switch) had a problem from the get-go, and now it's gone from 90% broken to 100% broken. It's probably your coupler, or some spot where the cable rubs against a sill or edge, or runs by something hot. Note also that you're only good for 300' in a single run of cable, even with no coupler in the middle. You're gonna have to test each run. Either one should be good for 1000 Mbps. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
