Question slow download speeds with ethernet cable

[christofferskr]

I have been getting really slow download speeds lately. I have a 30m ish long cable going through the wall to the outside. It goes outside on the wall and into my room. Its a cat6 cable made for outside use. The cable came already terminated and it was 40m long. I decided to shorten it down so I wouldnt have a huge coil under my bed. The cable worked fine for a couble of days, but then I started getting slow download speeds, its fine while gaming, cause I still have a connection, but its annoying when I try to stream vids and movies. I saw that it lit up red/orange insted of green on the thernet port. I terminated the cable again and now it light up green, but the speeds are still low. Its only the download speed, upload it completely fine.

 

[anotherdrew]

I have been getting really slow download speeds lately. I have a 30m ish long cable going through the wall to the outside. It goes outside on the wall and into my room. Its a cat6 cable made for outside use. The cable came already terminated and it was 40m long. I decided to shorten it down so I wouldnt have a huge coil under my bed. The cable worked fine for a couble of days, but then I started getting slow download speeds, its fine while gaming, cause I still have a connection, but its annoying when I try to stream vids and movies. I saw that it lit up red/orange insted of green on the thernet port. I terminated the cable again and now it light up green, but the speeds are still low. Its only the download speed, upload it completely fine.

Not knowing what speeds you expect and what you are getting, it's kinda hard to say. For example, 10 Mbit and 100 Mbit Ethernet only requires 4 of the 8 wires to work, where as Gigabit requires all 8. If you were getting 100 Mbps when you were expecting 400 Mbps, it would be a dead giveaway that you you had a poor termination. If you were getting 10 Mbps, then you might have crimped (damaged) the wire somewhere.

Normally the connection between two devices is auto-negotiated. You can force the connection to the highest speed if you go to the Device Manager and open the properties of your Ethernet Adapter. Look for the advanced tab and in that list look for speed and duplex.

You say the indicator LED has gone back to green, but I don't know if that is a good thing or not. You can check you motherboard user guide (I assume you are using onboard) to see what different colors mean.

I am pretty bad at terminating cables myself, so I normally will use a Ethernet port at the end I cut and then use a short patch cable. Also makes for a cleaner installation. You can run into an issue if the wire colors are not standard, so I will often do ports at both ends (like where it leaves and then reenters the house).

 

[Flayed]

I am pretty bad at terminating cables myself, so I normally will use a Ethernet port at the end I cut and then use a short patch cable. Also makes for a cleaner installation. You can run into an issue if the wire colors are not standard, so I will often do ports at both ends (like where it leaves and then reenters the house).

I did this too.

 

[christofferskr]

Not knowing what speeds you expect and what you are getting, it's kinda hard to say. For example, 10 Mbit and 100 Mbit Ethernet only requires 4 of the 8 wires to work, where as Gigabit requires all 8. If you were getting 100 Mbps when you were expecting 400 Mbps, it would be a dead giveaway that you you had a poor termination. If you were getting 10 Mbps, then you might have crimped (damaged) the wire somewhere.

Normally the connection between two devices is auto-negotiated. You can force the connection to the highest speed if you go to the Device Manager and open the properties of your Ethernet Adapter. Look for the advanced tab and in that list look for speed and duplex.

You say the indicator LED has gone back to green, but I don't know if that is a good thing or not. You can check you motherboard user guide (I assume you are using onboard) to see what different colors mean.

I am pretty bad at terminating cables myself, so I normally will use a Ethernet port at the end I cut and then use a short patch cable. Also makes for a cleaner installation. You can run into an issue if the wire colors are not standard, so I will often do ports at both ends (like where it leaves and then reenters the house).

I get 30-50 mbps when im expecting 100 mbps. I have terminated a bunch before so im not terible at it. It was harder with this cable because its alot stiffer than a normal cat6 cable. I looked at my cable and it looked like it had been squashed. Its right by the end close to the router so I will try to cut that part off and terminate it again.

 

[christofferskr]

Not knowing what speeds you expect and what you are getting, it's kinda hard to say. For example, 10 Mbit and 100 Mbit Ethernet only requires 4 of the 8 wires to work, where as Gigabit requires all 8. If you were getting 100 Mbps when you were expecting 400 Mbps, it would be a dead giveaway that you you had a poor termination. If you were getting 10 Mbps, then you might have crimped (damaged) the wire somewhere.

Normally the connection between two devices is auto-negotiated. You can force the connection to the highest speed if you go to the Device Manager and open the properties of your Ethernet Adapter. Look for the advanced tab and in that list look for speed and duplex.

You say the indicator LED has gone back to green, but I don't know if that is a good thing or not. You can check you motherboard user guide (I assume you are using onboard) to see what different colors mean.

I am pretty bad at terminating cables myself, so I normally will use a Ethernet port at the end I cut and then use a short patch cable. Also makes for a cleaner installation. You can run into an issue if the wire colors are not standard, so I will often do ports at both ends (like where it leaves and then reenters the house)

Not knowing what speeds you expect and what you are getting, it's kinda hard to say. For example, 10 Mbit and 100 Mbit Ethernet only requires 4 of the 8 wires to work, where as Gigabit requires all 8. If you were getting 100 Mbps when you were expecting 400 Mbps, it would be a dead giveaway that you you had a poor termination. If you were getting 10 Mbps, then you might have crimped (damaged) the wire somewhere.

Normally the connection between two devices is auto-negotiated. You can force the connection to the highest speed if you go to the Device Manager and open the properties of your Ethernet Adapter. Look for the advanced tab and in that list look for speed and duplex.

You say the indicator LED has gone back to green, but I don't know if that is a good thing or not. You can check you motherboard user guide (I assume you are using onboard) to see what different colors mean.

I am pretty bad at terminating cables myself, so I normally will use a Ethernet port at the end I cut and then use a short patch cable. Also makes for a cleaner installation. You can run into an issue if the wire colors are not standard, so I will often do ports at both ends (like where it leaves and then reenters the house).

Its suppose to light green if everything is okay (which it does). I do speedtests frequently and it goes anywhere from 30-100. somethimes its on 30, sometimes 60 and sometimes 100 mbps. I contacted my provider and they said that there werent a problem on their side.