possible bad network wire?

[sklett]

here is the situation:

Dad's house has 10mbit hub
ports run throughout the house
in the garage, the laptop internet access is slow for requests, when
downloading larger files it seems to be regular speed
if the laptop is taken in the house and plugged into a different port, the
speed seems fine for everything(normal)
I have tried changing to different ports on the hub, this makes no
difference.

So the only thing I can think of is that the wire must be bad, is it
possible that if one of the wires in the line was bad that it would still
work, but be wounded?
Any help would be appreciated, he's driving me crazy calling me every day!


Thanks,
Steve

 

[Herb Martin]

Bad network wire, especially bad drop cables and
connectors are the source of FAR MORE problems
than most people realize.

here is the situation:

Dad's house has 10mbit hub
ports run throughout the house
in the garage, the laptop internet access is slow for requests, when
downloading larger files it seems to be regular speed
if the laptop is taken in the house and plugged into a different port, the
speed seems fine for everything(normal)
I have tried changing to different ports on the hub, this makes no
difference.

So the only thing I can think of is that the wire must be bad, is it
possible that if one of the wires in the line was bad that it would still
work, but be wounded?

Yes. I have seen such. Most especially with large
file transfers. Drove me crazy at first because it worked
FAR TOO WELL to believe it was the cable.

Any help would be appreciated, he's driving me crazy calling me every day!

Note, most people are using 100Mbps NICs and you have
10Mbps cabling, hubs, connectors, etc.

It may have worked just fine for 10 and fail or be intermittent
for 100.

 

[Herb Martin]

Oh, and it might be (probably is) cheaper to
just get him a new 100Mbps/54Mbps-WiFi
hub for the main machines with WiFi cards
for the "other more remote locations" .

Plug the close machines into the hub direct
with NEW good drop cables, and use the
wireless through the house and even on the
deck if he has a laptop.

 

[sklett]

Thanks Herb, your suggestions are very appreciated!

Have a nice day!

 

[Herb Martin]

Thanks Herb, your suggestions are very appreciated!

You're welcome.

And you can get him a hub with one extra card for
about $100 (plus or minus $20), and more cards
for about $60 (plus/minus $20) each.