Recent content by bobslay

Thanks all, just squeezed both ends till I started to pass out, still no joy. Could it be the RJ45 plugs I'm using aren't that good? But again I wouldn't expect then to work at all in that case.

No tester thinks it's great but it's not working at all (no lights on PC or router). Ive ordered some shielded cable and I'll test it before I run it :) hopefully that should sort things out

I've redone both ends of the wire just in case it's my fault, the cable tester lights run 1 through 8 in the correct sequence on both parts of the tester at both ends of the wire.

Thanks, new super turbo shielded bomb proof cable ordered, thanks for your help. From the excitement of seeing the 8 lights all come on to the disappointment of no network, it's been an emotional morning :)

OK thanks, time to get the ladders out again and stop being so tight on the quality of the cable. Still seems very strange to me that the cable tester is saying it's fine but I guess that means it's getting a signal but not a great one.

@AtomicWar Stupidly I didn't test the cable before running it, I was too excited :) Difficult to pull out to test.

Sorry just to clarify there are lights but they are not lighting up with the new cable (they used to light up on the old one and they light up with the temporary one)

No lights on either the PC or the router

Tester could be wrong but tester identified old cable wasn't working and the temporary one was. The route of the cable hasn't changed for three years so any magnetic/electrical interference would have been around all the time and I've been running fine at 110Mb. If the new cable is poor quality...

I've been running a temporary cable through the rooms of my house (rather than through the ceiling where the new and old one run) since it stopped working, that cable is working fine so it must be the new cable. Is there any way it the tester says it's OK it could still be bad?

Hi, I've just installed a new run of cat 5 cabling as the old one ran partly outside and it just gave up after 3 years of harsh winters. The cable runs about 30m from my PC to my router. I put RJ45 plugs on each end myself and I have a simple tester to test it out with the 8 consecutive lights...