Cat 6 cable plugged into cat5e jack?

[de8212]

House is wired with Cat6 cable which is punched down onto Cat5e wall jacks. I had cat5e cables connected to the router. Everything worked fine. Switched the Cat5e cables out for cat6 cables and both main PC's work intermittently. I don't have a cable tester on me (brother in law does so he took all the cat6 cables). Dumb question but there should be no issue plugging a cat6 cable into a 5e jack, right?

 

[skyking]

correct. Both are terminated to RJ45 and either TIA568A or B. The only issues you may have are:
1)bad cable
2)crossover cable on non-gigabit hardware.
3)coincidentally something is wrong now with one of your keystone jacks or wire runs. Coincidences like that do happen.

 

[imagoon]

House is wired with Cat6 cable which is punched down onto Cat5e wall jacks. I had cat5e cables connected to the router. Everything worked fine. Switched the Cat5e cables out for cat6 cables and both main PC's work intermittently. I don't have a cable tester on me (brother in law does so he took all the cat6 cables). Dumb question but there should be no issue plugging a cat6 cable into a 5e jack, right?

If you mean the keystones are cat5e but the house in wall is Cat6 then technically your out of spec as cat6 is a different diameter. However cat6 is larger than cat5e you might be ok but in theory the punch downs could be poor because crushing a larger core in to the smaller cat5e slot can break the copper in the cat6 in wall. If you mean cat6 patch with cat5e everything else, that is fine.

 

[de8212]

thanks for the info. I'm hoping bad cable but it seems strange that several of them are bad. Hopefully he will test them today and let me know. I really need to get a cable tester of my own.

I don't think they were xover. Well, I should say I didn't order xover. Here's the link for one of them. Click....

Hopefully keystone jacks are fine. I put the old cat5e cables back in and everything worked 100%.

My whole goal was to get short cables and help de-clutter my network closet. It looked great but didn't work reliable. I may just order some cat5e 1ft. cables and be done with it.

When I had the house built I had plenty of cat6 cable to run through the walls but could only find the cat5e leviton keystones at Home Depot, no cat6. So that's why it mixed.