Wifi better than cat 5 ????

[croak5]

Hello,

I have a home office located in my garage about 7 walls, and 70' from my wifi router (connected to a my DSL).

Right now I have a 2 computers on my desk, One connects to the router through a USR wifi adaptor. THe other connects thru a homemade 70' cat5 cable with with 1 junction to a 8 ft cat6 (or 7 whatever) cable.

The wifi conection is about 5-10% faster. :?:


Clues?

 

[jjw]

I assume you are talking about the speed of the connection to the internet, not the connection speed from PC to PC. It is a little suprising that the Cat5 is slower.

It is likely that there is some other issue (PC performance maybe) for the difference.

 

[JustPlainJef]

It could be a poorly made homemade cable, and the junction isn't helping any either...