If the cable has failed, it could drop to 100mb, as this speed only needs two pairs. 1Gb needs all four pairs to work. Both Cat 5e and Cat 6 are good for 1Gb at 100 meters distance.
Thanks Carl, that is what is most puzzling, it reports a GB connection locally at both ends. The cable between might be suspect, I thought CAT5e or CAT6 was fine for GB over 50m. Maybe should swap to dark fiber and couple fiber converters?
I still looking for that software though, I am sure I've seen it.
BTW VM Broadband is 250MB (reports 236MB/s with a following wind so pinch of salt on those VM numbers perhaps!) so it's local networking I am really interested in.
If the cable has failed, it could drop to 100mb, as this speed only needs two pairs. 1Gb needs all four pairs to work. Both Cat 5e and Cat 6 are good for 1Gb at 100 meters distance.
Tnx, making me think the cable is the culprit. As fiber and converters a lot cheaper than once were I suspect might use some multi core fiber but gonna have to pull through a conduit so might need to be SWA maybe?
Wouldn't do any harm to have in any case. When Openreach pulled fibre to my premises from the footpath, they didn't mess around. It was quite a lot of pulling on the outer sheath, but the inner fibre survived intact !
