On Tue, 2020-02-11 at 12:33 +1030, Tim via users wrote: > On Mon, 2020-02-10 at 22:31 +0000, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > I switched the cable that came with the router for the Cat-6 I was > > using when this problem arose originally, but without changing the > > port. > > > > It's now running at 1000Mbps. Clearly the (new) cable was at fault. > > Good to hear. It's a wonder that network cables aren't the cause of > more things, or perhaps it's not even realised the network isn't > running properly (chances are some people won't notice that their > network is running at 100 Mbs instead of 1000). Cables get dragged > about, badly kinked, crushed against the wall, and equipment-supplied > ones can be crappy. I've got one that came with equipment that has 8 > thin parallel wires, none of them are twisted together. > > And I've got a weird ISP-supplied router with 1 Gbs port and 3 100 Mbs > ports. Quite why anyone would build something like that, I don't know. > And it's hard to tell which is the gigabit port, there's no printing, > just tiny indented writing on white plastic. Who knows why ISPs do anything? In fact my ISP (Zen Internet) is pretty responsive and their support crew sound like human beings rather than droids. That said, it's clear that the thin white cable supplied with the router is simply not adequate for Gigabit Ethernet. Once I sussed the problem, it was obvious that this was the case and I should have realised it earlier. My old NAS is connected with a proper CAT-6 cable and it was going full speed. I'll be mailing Zen to let them know they should inform their customers of this. poc _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
