[SOLVED] 100Mbp/s with CAT 6

[kinggaming60]

I recently upgraded to a CAT 6 cable and i still only get 100Mbp/s. I have already changed the speed&Duplex of my ethernet driver and still nothing has changed. My motherboard is a ASUS Prime Z370-P so it should be able to get 1.0Gbp/s right? Thanks!

 

[ElectrO_90]

Ye's so i think it has to do with the Modem and if its the cable then the lad who is coming to sort the issue out might be able to see that tomorrow, hopefully. And i do not have another PC i can test it on, would an xbox possibly work as a test? @ElectrO_90

I know nothing about Xbox nic - if its 1gb then yes

 

[jsmithepa]

Not really coincidental. If gigabit auto negotiation failed due to a bad cable (or whatever) it'd have to drop down to 100 Mb, there's nothing else in between.

That makes sense.

So 24 posts on this thread and still chasing the mystical cable.

 

[kinggaming60]

That makes sense.

So 24 posts on this thread and still chasing the mystical cable.

Even more interesting, my brother who is using just a normal CAT5 cable is achieving 1gbp/s speeds. How crazy is that!?

 

[kinggaming60]

That makes sense.

So 24 posts on this thread and still chasing the mystical cable.

Alright so, new research has come through and i can confirm that it has to be my motherboard or other such that is limiting the usage. I recieved another cable today in the hopes of it working and to my surprise it didn't. I plugged it into the xbox and this time it showed that the CAT 6 cable was able to get 1Gbp/s speeds. So are there any settings or other such that i should be aware of to turn on for it to work?

 

[bill001g]

There only setting there is the speed and you want that on auto. This function is being done by special purpose chips and is not really a software thing so at some point you decide the port in the machine is defective. This is extremely unlikely which is why you try everything else first. There is no fix for a broken port. Best are add in pcie cards, USB3 work but are more complex so you sometime get strange issues.

 

[kinggaming60]

There only setting there is the speed and you want that on auto. This function is being done by special purpose chips and is not really a software thing so at some point you decide the port in the machine is defective. This is extremely unlikely which is why you try everything else first. There is no fix for a broken port. Best are add in pcie cards, USB3 work but are more complex so you sometime get strange issues.

So given that i have had two CAT 6 cables both not going to 100mbp/s but they work on a console and my router, drivers etc all supporting it would you say i have a defective port?

 

[kinggaming60]

So i can finally close of this thread as my issue is now solved. I refunded the CAT 6 cable and got myself a CAT 7 cable instead of CAT 6 as even some of the comments were saying that they couldn't achieve over 100 mbp/s with CAT 6. I plugged it in today and praise be finally, 1 Gbp/s speeds. Thankyou all for your help and suggestions!

 

[hamoo]

I recently upgraded to a CAT 6 cable and i still only get 100Mbp/s. I have already changed the speed&Duplex of my ethernet driver and still nothing has changed. My motherboard is a ASUS Prime Z370-P so it should be able to get 1.0Gbp/s right? Thanks!

i have had brand new out of the box computers with bad network cards. that's a guess. if you've troubleshot all other options, you might consider that one. it's a hard one to troubleshoot unless you can move the computer within reach of a known good port, using a known good cable
my second guess is a bad connection in a patch panel. it is theoretically the easiest thing in the world to reseat the 8 wires, but then nobody wants to do it
i apologize if i missed anything in your op. if it doesn't apply to you, it may help someone else