Network Cable Tester / network cable problem

[Matthew Kolder]

Hi guys, do we have a  network cable tester lying around the labs somewhere? Just run 60m cat5e to my house but for some reason the connection drops every few seconds :(

I recon it might be the cable itself, because I got it for cheap on ebay and the wiring is solid colours only!? I wired it as white, red, light green, dark blue, light blue, dark green, light purple, dark purple, i think that's correct.

Thanks

Matthew

[Domhnall Walsh]

Don't thinks so. But try tying pairs together on one end and test on the other end for continuity across the loop.

Proper cable testing would involve high frequency testing (as well as continuity/DC testing)

[Bacon Zombie]

Did you check it was really twisted pair?

[Matthew Kolder]

So i'm able to connect to the internet when the 60m network cable is plugged in directly to my laptop. The problem starts when i have the second router connected to the cable. I can connect to the internet through the wireless or through the lan port, but the speeds are painful, about 30 seconds(sometime longer) to load google.ie. 

Could someone look at my configuration and perhaps point out what might be causing such a slow connection when two routers are connected?

My configuration looks like that:

Eircom zyxel p-660 ADSL Router 

ip address: 192.168.1.254 subnet: 255.255.255.0

DHCP enabled(start 192.168.1.100, pool: 100 ), 

NAT enabled, DNS Relay 192.168.1.254

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60m cat5e cable

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TP-Link 150mbps Cable Router ( network cable connected to LAN port, not WAN)

Settings:

- DHCP disabled 

- IP: 192.168.1.2 subnet: 255.255.255.0

Thanks 

Matthew

On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 11:54 AM, Domhnall Walsh <domh...@091labs.com> wrote:

There are several multimeters in the space, so that shouldn't be a problem.

On 10 Sep 2012 11:49, "bryan.devaney" <bryan....@gmail.com> wrote:

I can lend you a multimeter, that would at least let you test wire-by-wire for connectivity. I don't have a dedicated network cable tester though.

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