Question Does ethernet lose speed through surge protector ?

[darryl305]

Heya, So I recently got a new surge protector, and it has input outputs for Eletric plugs, as well as coaxial cables and Ethernet cable. But my question is, Do you think I am losing speed because of going through the surge protector itself, or is it maybe because of the secondary Ether net cable?

Basically, when I run directly from the modem/router to my PC, I am using cat6 cable. But when I go through the surge protector, i put the cat 6 on the input, but the output cable I have is only cat 5E. My DL speeds when I go directly from modem with the cat 6 is usually 800-900 GBps. But when I go through surge protector, my DL drops to like 80-120 GBps.

SO I wonder, if I were to get a secondary cat6 cable, would it run same speed through the surge protector? Do you think that having only cat 5e makes me lose all that DL speed? Or you think it is thge surge protector that is slowing things down, when I go through it?

I do not currently have a spare cat 6 cable to try, but I may buy one, if I can get the same speeds with it as if I was not going through the surge protector. But, I dont wanna waste my money, if I will still lose DL speeds, regardless of if it is cat 6 or cat 5E..

 

[Viking2121]

You are probably thinking mbps, and not Gbps, 900 gbps is like some next level stuff that cat 6 can't even do lol.

Anyway, I don't think going to another cable will do much unless there is something wrong with the cable, Cat 5 can handle gigabit (1000mbps), If you have another cat 5 cable or even swap out the cat 6 for another cat 5 and see if speeds change.

But to me it sounds like the surge protector is only 10/100 speeds if you are getting 80 - 120mbps, if thats the case, you will not get anywhere close to 1000mbps, its just a physical limitation, an older standard, that even some modern devices still use today.

If you look in the manual or even on the box, it should tell you what he ethernet ports are capable of, sometimes they don't on them devices, if it supports your 900 mbps, it should say 1gbit or something like 10/100/1000. If it supports the older standard, it will say Fast Ethernet, or 10/100.

Good luck.

 

[bill001g]

You shouldn't need surge protection on ethernet cables they are magnetically isolated and also optically isolated in most cases.
This is done for both for performance and to prevent issues when the 2 different device they connect have different grounding.

Connecting any kind of surge protection device is not really part of the ethernet standard. It will likely affect performance.

The only way you can get a surge in a ethenet cable is if one of the end units have a massive failure that destroys the devices that are already providing isolation. Something like a lightning strike. There is no surge protection device that will fully protect against that. The surge protection is more for random surges in the power coming into the house and ethernet does not directly connect to city power lines.

I would not use the connection.