Cat5e pull question

[BCinSC]

Pulled a 30ft or so run of decent Cat5e from office to attic where I was going to place a WAP54G. My tester shows all green for twisted pairs and crimping and I can connect with my laptop. However, when I connect the WAP54G, it isn't able to pass the DHCP request and thus I never actually connect. When I connect WAP54G to router with 3ft patch, it works fine. What would cause such peculiar behavior?

 

[ScottMac]

What pair (color) order did you use at each end?

Does it work at 10Meg?

Let us know

Scott

 

[BCinSC]

Worked at 100Mb with laptop, but not with WAP. Recrimped as a crossover cable and got same deal. Obviously, the WAP is the culprit, but why?

 

[ScottMac]

Originally posted by: ScottMac
What pair (color) order did you use at each end?

Does it work at 10Meg?

Let us know

Scott

That wasn't what I asked you. ^^^

Pair order, and does it work at 10Meg?

Scott

 

[BCinSC]

I used TIA/EIA 568B scheme

Pin No. strand color Name
1 white and orange TX_D1+
2 orange TX_D1-
3 white and green RX_D2+
4 blue BI_D3+ **
5 white and blue BI_D3- **
6 green RX_D2-
7 white and brown BI_D4+ **
8 brown

and checking 10Mb operation wasn't an option for WAP. Since 100Mb worked for laptop, I assumed 10Mb would, too.

When recrimped crossover, I also used 568B

 

[lapierrem]

you need only 1 device to do DHCP serving. so the router will do it here, and the WAP needs to be on the same subnet, so if the router is 192.168.1.1, and the wap needs to have a 192.168.1.x address, and the address of the wap itself would need to be changed, ie, to 192.168.1.2 Turn off the DHCP server on the router, and change its ip.

 

[BCinSC]

WAP doesn't have a DHCP server and it's default address is 192.168.1.245.

 

[jameswhite1979]

What do you get if you run it on a normal CAT5 short cable?

 

[BCinSC]

Seems to work fine with shorter run of same cable. Friend thinks perhaps it may be the cable. Apparenly some manufacturers go cheap and make fewer twists, resulting in anomolies on longer runs. As this cable is a no name box of 1000', I bet it's crap. Where can I get high quality cable?