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Cannot get top speeds out of my network ? need help!

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Homercliez

Junior Member
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 connected at 100 Mbps!

Assuming basic math has not failed me, 100 / 8 = 12.5. (100 Megabits / 8 bits in a byte). So, shouldn?t my network run at 12.5 MBp/s at its fastest? Below is a list of things I have checked:

1: Punch down keeps the wire twist all the way up to the end.
2: Cables are not too long
3: Patch cables are not too short (thanks to a thread in this forum).
4: NIC speeds are set to Auto ? when I set them to 100/full, it seems to get buggy.

I even brought my File Server (just an old Dell) up to my office and hooked my main pc and it together with to 10? Cat 6 Patch cords and still only topped out at 10 MpB/s. Then when I set the NIC cards to 100/full, it seemed buggy again? so I don?t think it is my cable job.

Any suggestions?
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Welcome to the Network Forum.

Wow you really did well. :beer:

In most situation when people do thier own wiring they get 6-8MB/sec.

Your Theoretical Math is correct, but there are Natural loses, and OS/Applications OverHead.

No one gets 12.5MB/sec. Not even the Pros.

10MB/sec. is Excellent.:thumbsup:

:sun:
 
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