Recent content by dorlow

Oh, and I bought some stuff to just wire my desktop PC to the switch directly. Just watched a youtube video of a guy doing it. Granted, I have fished wires through walls before. I've done it quite a bit. But, I've never got one down from the attic.... trying to drill the center of a wall...

For the switch, I'm just using a cheap PoE Netgear switch. It is a gigabit switch. The link lights for all of the ports active are blinking green. According to the front of the switch, green means a gig link. I just checked the watchguard's status page. It's showing 1000 Mb/s full duplex...

So, just got done testing. So, my ISP is giving me the full 1 Gb/s up and down. Got like the high 900 Mb/s both ways when I ran the speed test with my PC as the only PC hooked to the modem. I then hooked up my firewall and connected my PC to the switch. Ran a speed test. Got 264.58 Mb/s...

So, I just remembered I bought one of these a while ago and it was just sitting in my closet. https://www.bee-link.com/u59-pro-n5105 Just hooked it up. It's running Windows 11 Pro. 2 GHz processor 4 core 8 GB RAM 256 GB m.2 SSD It has a gig nic. Just hooked it up at my modem. Now have my...

so, then the question, how do you all recommend I test using cat 5e or 6? None of my PCs have a built in NIC. Is a speed test using a usb nic a good test? Well, I guess my desktop does, but that seems like a pain to move it to just test...

According to windows, it's showing my wifi is getting 573 Mb/s up and down Link Speed. So, that's what Windows is showing it thinks I should be able to get from my PC to the main access point. Not sure how that's calculated. But, that means it doesn't think it has a good enough signal for 1...

So, after typing this, I got to thinking, maybe I could run a speed test directly from the watchguard. I don't think I can. I was thinking it has a linux backend.... maybe it does. But, when I telnet to it, it has a firewall, cisco, type cli... I don't think there's any way to access any...

Ok, so we've had 4G internet for like a year. Finally got fiber about 2 months ago. I am being more liberal about my bandwidth usage. But, sometimes this fiber can feel pretty darn slow. I'm trying to figure out where my bottleneck is and also a good way to test if I'm really getting my 1...

Well, I just switched from a wireless mouse to a wired mouse and the kvm switches just fine with the mouse. But, why would a wireless mouse just quit working with the switching? Also, I've replaced the mouse recently because the last mouse was acting weird.

I'm not sure which forum to put this in. Figure the display forum would more likely be KVM aware people. But, I have a KVM that switches between 2 PCs. Everything switches correctly except for the mouse. The mouse used to work. I had it plugged into the port just for the mouse on the KVM...

So, frustrated now. I just rented an amprobe at-7030. Watching YouTube videos, it shows how it traces wires behind walls. Well see what I find out with that.

So, I just checked outside again. Our phone box on the side of the house only has one blue cat 5 running out of it into the house. Then there's the grey cat 5 that goes under the siding (like it was an after thought to the house.) So, I'd say I'm pretty sure when the house was originally...

I just looked in all of our closets and can't find any panels or boxes anywhere. I looked around the master bedroom and didn't find anything. Our house was built in 2007... so its not super new. This is getting really frustrating. This can't be that difficult finding the other ends of these...

So, I work in IT. I've done my fair share of networking. (Got my CCNA in college.) So, I do know what a patch panel looks like. I've never seen one in the house anywhere.

I don't have any floor plans of the house. We have two furnaces... (wierd the way they do things in the south.) We have one furnace for the downstairs and that unit is outside. Then we have one unit for the upstairs. Part of it is in the attic and part of it is outside. So, we don't have...