Can a worn-out ethernet cable cause significant speed loss?

[Efthimis Vlastaridis]

Well, I own an almost 2 years old ethernet cable which has been fairly damaged . My question is that if the wear of my cable can cause an important speed drop, because recently I've been experiencing such problems. Thanks in advance!

 

[TbsToy]

Of course. Cables are cheap.
W.P.

 

[Efthimis Vlastaridis]

Of course. Cables are cheap.
W.P.

I have already ordered a new Cat6 ethernet cable, should I expect a speed increase now?

 

[Plumboby]

a bit more than ur old 1 wud have been it make a diffrence tho

 

[bill001g]

Unlikely you could damage the cable itself. You can damage the ends...or more the internal connection between the wires and the pins. I suppose you could wear out the surface of the connection from plugging it in and out but you would also wear out the jacks in your equipment when you look at it that way.

As stated it is cheap to replace a simple patch cable. You could test by ping the router IP from your PC. Some routers will display the error counts on the ports and that would be a indication of a faulty connection. There is also some way to display the port errors on a PC but it is been so long I forget.

 

[USAFRet]

Well, I own an almost 2 years old ethernet cable which has been fairly damaged . My question is that if the wear of my cable can cause an important speed drop, because recently I've been experiencing such problems. Thanks in advance!

Off topic, but...
Regarding your avatar image...I most likely worked on that exact jet. That is from the 388FW Hill AFB.

 

[Plumboby]

get a good cable ur better of to