Old wiring affecting speed

[swarleychu]

So recently I had a problem with my wireless getting about 3x faster download speed than my wired connections. I found the problem was that when my dad (who is no longer around) wired my house up about 10 years ago, he used an old hub and cat5 cables. I have upgraded the hub and wires to cat6 but I'm wondering if the age of dsl patch cable that connects my router to the internet would affect ping and download speed like an old ethernet cable would.
Should I replace the patch cable?

 

[nukemaster]

This depends on your speed.

Cat5 is good for at least 100 megabit/sec per direction.

If you had an actual HUB and not a switch that was a huge bottleneck.

 

[swarleychu]

This depends on your speed.

Cat5 is good for at least 100 megabit/sec per direction.

If you had an actual HUB and not a switch that was a huge bottleneck.

It was an old netgear switch that was causing the problem, I think. Seeing as I am under 100mb/s, do you think that replacing the cable wouldn't do much?

 

[nukemaster]

Yeah I do not think it would do much.

100 megabit/sec is 12.5 megabytes/sec. Internet is getting faster all the time so you may get over that at some point

If it is easy to run the cable while you are changing other parts anyway, It will not hurt and may be something you would have to do later(if you got faster internet).

 

[bill001g]

A point to remember is even if you were to replace the cable between your router and the wall jack where the internet comes in the phone company wire will be all the same from your house back to the phone company. DSL is very different that ethernet so it can use crappy wire but it will not hurt anything to replace your cable if you want..