Recent content by Homercliez

Thanks for the information everybody! I do consider myself an enthusiast?. just not a good one. ;) The last system I had, I bought off the guy that pretty much taught me about O.C.ing, so I trusted his PSU choice. Actually, I never really gave the PSU a second thought until now that I am...

If you are using a regular HUB, this could/would be true... even worse if you have more computers hooked up! But I agree with you regarding today?s switches and routers. Anything relatively new will give each PC 100Mb/s.

I am in the process of building a new PC. I am planning on all the bells and whistles, so I want a good case, cooling system and power supply. I?ve looked around the forum for a while and did a few searches, so I am sorry if this topic has been discussed elsewhere, but anyhooo, on with my...

First, I would suggest that you try another cable to see if that is the problem. As most have already mentioned in here, you should be seeing 100 Megabits/sec rates with this type of connection. If you are making the cable yourself, make sure that you keep the pairs twisted as far as the...

Standard Cat5 WILL work, but you will have to take your chances on getting the full bandwidth. But if you have Cat5e it will most defiantly work and probably at the gigabit speeds. So long as (like Allan The Shield said), all your terminations are correct. That means at the RJ45 end and the...

I ran Cat5e throughout my house and punched it down in little wiring closet all nice and neat. Since I ran cable for a bout year or so, I figured I knew most of the basics, so when my benchmark only ran at 10 MBp/s, (That is Megabytes) I was frustrated. I mean the LAN Status shows it is...