Tuesday, June 18, 2024 at 2:46 PM
A few days ago, we fixed the long Cat5e cable that runs from one end of the house to the other. We replaced a broken section with two female plugs and connected a cable between them. When I plug it into my switch, the little light is green. This means that the connection is gigabit. A speed test over the connection gives us our 200 Mbit/s. What is weird is that the light turns orange after a few minutes and the connection drops to 100 Mbit/s. I don't get it. There are 9 female keystone outlets and 11 RJ45 male plugs between my switch and the basement Wi-Fi router (including the end connections). I wonder if it is too much. We are not able to fish a new cable (which would be the perfect solution). Ideally, I would replace the whole cable with brand new Cat6e cable [SIC].
