Hello, fellows I just moved and I'm wiring up my new home office for cat6A, and I've finished the connections for 4 of the 8 cables I need to run, but they aren't working. I wired the shielded cat6A with a 33X6-520 110 punch down Cat6A Keystone
https://www.cablewholesale.com/products/network-phone/keystones/product-33x6-520.php
and the Cat6A cabling is
https://www.lowes.com/pd/Micro-Conn...STP-Bulk-Ethernet-26AWG-Cable-Blue/5000887113
and I've wired it up to the B configuration, I've doubled checked both ends to make sure they are wired correctly and they are. you see I have 8 connections running from my home office 4 to the living room and then another 4 to the will be going to the bed room that I haven't connected yet ,so I only have 4 connected at the moment from the living room. so when I connect either cat5 e or cat 6 from the cable modem to the roughter I get a connection. but if I connect the roughter to the cat6A via a cat5e or 6 and connect a device such as the pc using cat5e or cat6 running through the cat6A I get nothing. I'm tired so please forgive me if this gets confusing. in simple terms if i connect everything running cat5e and cat 6 and use wifi I can connect. but if I try to connect from the roughter to the cat6A to cat5e to pc or switch I have no connection. I thought all of the cables were backwards compatible. I guess not. I have ordered 4 3ft cat6A cables to make a complete cat6A connection. instead of running cat5e to cat6A to Cat5e etc. I hope thats the issue. the only other thing I can think of is a break in the line but 4 lines having a break seems unlikely. I though of wiring so thats why I doubled checked my work , or it could be faulty keystone jacks. and is there a way to reuse keystone jacks or are they trashed onces they've been terminated. they didn't teach me that in school. I don't fool a lot with network wiring creation, I'm mostly in software and hardware repair.
and for testing purposes can I use a cat5e keystone jack on cat6A I wanted to use Cat6A for future proofing. but if I can get cat5 e keystones to work I will cut the cat6A keystones off and rewire them. I would hate to have to pull all that cable.
https://www.cablewholesale.com/products/network-phone/keystones/product-33x6-520.php
and the Cat6A cabling is
https://www.lowes.com/pd/Micro-Conn...STP-Bulk-Ethernet-26AWG-Cable-Blue/5000887113
and I've wired it up to the B configuration, I've doubled checked both ends to make sure they are wired correctly and they are. you see I have 8 connections running from my home office 4 to the living room and then another 4 to the will be going to the bed room that I haven't connected yet ,so I only have 4 connected at the moment from the living room. so when I connect either cat5 e or cat 6 from the cable modem to the roughter I get a connection. but if I connect the roughter to the cat6A via a cat5e or 6 and connect a device such as the pc using cat5e or cat6 running through the cat6A I get nothing. I'm tired so please forgive me if this gets confusing. in simple terms if i connect everything running cat5e and cat 6 and use wifi I can connect. but if I try to connect from the roughter to the cat6A to cat5e to pc or switch I have no connection. I thought all of the cables were backwards compatible. I guess not. I have ordered 4 3ft cat6A cables to make a complete cat6A connection. instead of running cat5e to cat6A to Cat5e etc. I hope thats the issue. the only other thing I can think of is a break in the line but 4 lines having a break seems unlikely. I though of wiring so thats why I doubled checked my work , or it could be faulty keystone jacks. and is there a way to reuse keystone jacks or are they trashed onces they've been terminated. they didn't teach me that in school. I don't fool a lot with network wiring creation, I'm mostly in software and hardware repair.
and for testing purposes can I use a cat5e keystone jack on cat6A I wanted to use Cat6A for future proofing. but if I can get cat5 e keystones to work I will cut the cat6A keystones off and rewire them. I would hate to have to pull all that cable.
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