Can't achieve Gigabit speed LAN through wall

[harrypt]

I have wired LAN throughout my house with a home-built computer that gets Gigabit speed at the end of a 75 ft run of cat5e. In a second location I've got a HTPC and a Macbook Pro as a music server both of which can only achieve 10Mbps speeds.

Those two computers are wired as follows: Cat5e patches from the router to Cooper Cat6 keystone jacks -->through a wall about 10 feet (the two runs are two different types of CAT5e!!)-->then through the other side of the wall via another pair of Cooper Cat6 keystone jacks --> a couple more patch cables to the computers.

I've used the Macbook to check all patch cables directly out of the router and get Gigabit from them so I've narrowed it to the in-wall wiring, the Cooper jacks or bad connections.

I'm prepared to re-wire the wall, but I'd sure like to determine what I've done wrong so I don't make the same mistake twice.

Can anyone give me some advice?

 

[ch33zw1z]

Start by checking both ends of the in-wall runs for termination issues at the keystones.

 

[SecurityTheatre]

I have wired LAN throughout my house with a home-built computer that gets Gigabit speed at the end of a 75 ft run of cat5e. In a second location I've got a HTPC and a Macbook Pro as a music server both of which can only achieve 10Mbps speeds.

Those two computers are wired as follows: Cat5e patches from the router to Cooper Cat6 keystone jacks -->through a wall about 10 feet (the two runs are two different types of CAT5e!!)-->then through the other side of the wall via another pair of Cooper Cat6 keystone jacks --> a couple more patch cables to the computers.

I've used the Macbook to check all patch cables directly out of the router and get Gigabit from them so I've narrowed it to the in-wall wiring, the Cooper jacks or bad connections.

I'm prepared to re-wire the wall, but I'd sure like to determine what I've done wrong so I don't make the same mistake twice.

Can anyone give me some advice?

Keystones require TIGHT wiring. If the winding isn't kept tight at the keystone, or the punches are weak, you will get crap speed.

I can almost guarantee it's the keystone wiring...

 

[ScottMac]

I have wired LAN throughout my house with a home-built computer that gets Gigabit speed at the end of a 75 ft run of cat5e. In a second location I've got a HTPC and a Macbook Pro as a music server both of which can only achieve 10Mbps speeds.

Those two computers are wired as follows: Cat5e patches from the router to Cooper Cat6 keystone jacks -->through a wall about 10 feet (the two runs are two different types of CAT5e!!)-->then through the other side of the wall via another pair of Cooper Cat6 keystone jacks --> a couple more patch cables to the computers.

I've used the Macbook to check all patch cables directly out of the router and get Gigabit from them so I've narrowed it to the in-wall wiring, the Cooper jacks or bad connections.

I'm prepared to re-wire the wall, but I'd sure like to determine what I've done wrong so I don't make the same mistake twice.

Can anyone give me some advice?

Did you make or buy the patch cables?

As mentioned above, its 99.999% chance it's the cabling.

 

[Zargon]

how are you measuring speeds?