Been working to track down a speed issue (very low, in the teens mbs) in one room of our home. I applied a line tester (tone) to the cable connecting our switch to the wall ethernet socket and couldn't get any kind of trace on the far end.
If I connect the cable to the tester source I get a strong tone at the unconnected end (that would normally go to the wall). As SOON as I connect it to the wall outlet, the signal drops to static, only providing the tone if I touch the cable a few inches from the toner.
It occurred to me that during a renovation in this room the electricians extended this ethernet line in order to move the outlet to an adjacent wall. When I removed the wall plate I found this:
Splice
Apparently a new length of (at least it's Cat5e) cable was piggybacked onto the rj45 outlet, which is pointing down/away in this image, and hidden behind a wall plate.
If this seems likely as the culprit, is there any point in trying to properly extend this line? There' s no easy way to pull a new line/drop (that would be a major project unfortunately).
Thanks for any advice.
If I connect the cable to the tester source I get a strong tone at the unconnected end (that would normally go to the wall). As SOON as I connect it to the wall outlet, the signal drops to static, only providing the tone if I touch the cable a few inches from the toner.
It occurred to me that during a renovation in this room the electricians extended this ethernet line in order to move the outlet to an adjacent wall. When I removed the wall plate I found this:
Splice
Apparently a new length of (at least it's Cat5e) cable was piggybacked onto the rj45 outlet, which is pointing down/away in this image, and hidden behind a wall plate.
If this seems likely as the culprit, is there any point in trying to properly extend this line? There' s no easy way to pull a new line/drop (that would be a major project unfortunately).
Thanks for any advice.