DoH !!! Think this might have been my bottleneck ???

[WalkinTarget]

I was planning on upgrading my network at some point to Gigabit speeds, and most of my boards support it, so I saw an ad at Office Depot offering a 5 port Netgear Gb switch for $20, so I headed in there early today and grabbed one.
When I got home, I hooked it up to replace a Cnet 10/100 switch that sat aside of my router. Thinking my work was done, I went to my main rig and checked to see if it was now listed as 1gb instead of 100 ... wellll, no .. it was set at 10mb !!!!!



WHAT ???? I then remembered that I had to shove and old 8 port hub under my desk when my wife's PC was moved to the room aside of where my PC is set up. The wireless adapter she was using didn't do SQUAT with a much longer range than where it previously was, so I has to do the 'ghetto cat5 run' across the baseboard to get her online.

I had forgotten about it completely, and with CoD4 I had been getting a nasty 5 second lag almost every map, which I assumed everybody else was getting .. but nooo, it was that piece of crap HUB !!!!

Anyhoo, I yanked the hub and replaced it with the just retired Cnet 10/100 and I am at least running on a 100mb switch at this point. I complained enough that the wife OK'd a cat5 drop for her PC so I can dispose of the switch soon, so that is good news. I was smart enough to run a spare line to my PC so the contractor can use that extra line to simplify the run as well.

So thats my tale of bad packets/dropped connex ... anybody in the southcentral PA area wanna poke some holes in my walls ??

[-IRC-MIKE]

CONTRACTOR?

Man. I'd run that line for you for about 25-30 dollars, which is about what you could do it for yourself. A box of 500 feet Cat 5e only costs about 50 bucks.

Unfortunately, you live a bit too far away.

[th3st1ck]

Glad you found the bottleneck


Yeah. I run most of my own wires (with my dad). Much easier, and more organized IMO.

[drunken_chef]

way too far for me too. you telling me that you can't do the wiring WT? I don't believe it.

[{CLR}geneSW]

just don't hit a stud, and follow the flooring and you won't hit any pipes/wires. If you want to be sure you don't hit any studs or anything, use one of those stud finders.

[Trooper110]

lol, shoulda seen the cable my friend and I ran up to my room today. Pain in the frickin ass. Need an extra pair of hands I'd be glad to come help out though WT.

[WalkinTarget]

Its going to be $100 a drop, as we had th house wired two years ago with 4 drops for $450. At the time, I told my wife I wanted 6 drops, but she wanted to keep the cost under $500. I told her that was going to come back to annoy us down the road, and it has, so what are you gonna do ??? *shrug*

Yea, I might be able to do it, but she hates when I start doing work around here that involves putting holes in walls, so its rather easy to defer to the paid professional as opposed to having me put a few 'test' holes here and there to find my way.

My main issue is snaking the cable, as I don't have a snake to run the cat5 down thru the wall. Its also a wireless dead zone, as my Netgear 834 does not get any signal at all to that location.

[darth_nevus]

way too far for me too. you telling me that you can't do the wiring WT? I don't believe it.

+1. tsk tsk tsk. i ran my own drops. all 8 of them