Browse Forums Home Theatre & Automation 1 May 30, 2008 10:43 pm Hi
I have had my cat6 cabling installed in my new house but I cannot seem to get it working. I have six points (one in each wall plate) in diffrent rooms which all come back to a six port wall plate in the study. When I plug in a laptop at one of the six points I have no lights. I plugged in a switch in the study and plugged in the six patch leads but when I test the laptop for a light on the network card I get nothing. Is it faulty or am I doing something wrong. Would I need a crossover cable from the laptop to the wall socket etc Re: cat6 cabling in new house 2May 31, 2008 7:41 am stevec Hi I have had my cat6 cabling installed in my new house but I cannot seem to get it working. I have six points (one in each wall plate) in diffrent rooms which all come back to a six port wall plate in the study. When I plug in a laptop at one of the six points I have no lights. I plugged in a switch in the study and plugged in the six patch leads but when I test the laptop for a light on the network card I get nothing. Is it faulty or am I doing something wrong. Would I need a crossover cable from the laptop to the wall socket etc First off you need to check if the laptop works when directly connected to the switch, remembering the leads in the walls are just long patch leads. You need to eliminate all the items in the chain starting at the source and working your way back. The cable installed in your walls should have been tested by the installer upon completion of fit off. No you don’t require crossover leads with a switch. Re: cat6 cabling in new house 3May 31, 2008 9:14 am Did you have the in wall cables tested and a certificate given when they'd finished?
Then as per above test latop direct to switch first - is that OK? Try the laptop in some of the other rooms - you may just have one bad termination point somwhere. I'd also test all the patch leads direct from laptop to the switch - if they are all OK then re-patch them to the wall and try again with another known good patch lead in each room. Steve Re: cat6 cabling in new house 4May 31, 2008 10:56 am Thanks guys
I am currently using the laptop at my current place with the switch abd it works fine. All th patch leads are ok as well. When I test them I plug the switch in, patch the six points from the wall plate (RJ45) in the study (Place in which the cabling returns) to the switch with straight .50cm patch cables then I walked around house and plugged laptop into each data point throughout the house with another straight cat cable. I get no lights on the laptop LAN port which I would expect at this stage. Am I doing something wrong or does it sound like faulty installation or termination of the lan cables Re: cat6 cabling in new house 5May 31, 2008 11:07 am stevec Thanks guys I am currently using the laptop at my current place with the switch abd it works fine. All th patch leads are ok as well. When I test them I plug the switch in, patch the six points from the wall plate (RJ45) in the study (Place in which the cabling returns) to the switch with straight .50cm patch cables then I walked around house and plugged laptop into each data point throughout the house with another straight cat cable. I get no lights on the laptop LAN port which I would expect at this stage. Am I doing something wrong or does it sound like faulty installation or termination of the lan cables No you’re not doing anything wrong, and yes you’re correct that procedure should work. It sounds like it could be a wiring/termination problem. Re: cat6 cabling in new house 6May 31, 2008 6:23 pm Yep - sounds like they've terminated the wrong colours on the wrong pins. Ask them to come back with a tester and request a print out of each run - certified and tested to the cat6 standard.
Steve Re: cat6 cabling in new house 7Jun 01, 2008 5:15 pm The other problem is that the insulators doing the roof install could of stepped on or pulled cables and broken them. Sometimes the cable clips used to tie down the cables can break them as well. (Elec's usually use the same clips that hold power cable which is designed to fit that profile) Re: cat6 cabling in new house 8Jun 02, 2008 7:04 am It is most likely that Steve has hit the nail on the head.
Terminating Cat6 is different to Cat5/Cat5E - even the actual sockets are different (even though they are both 4 pairs to RJ45). It could be that the tradie either accidentally used the wrong socket type, or terminated them like Cat5, or both... Yes well there solution is to blame everyone else while I a 65yr old woman with major medical problems have to just continue to boil water and wash myself in a bucket… 2 16004 If you make sure all taps inside and out are turned off, what does the water meter show if you leave it for a while. 2 20235 13 6631 |