Broken Ethernet Cable ?

[Sinbad]

lol you can swap cables, just take the longer cable and use it on the pc that uses the shorter cable that should help narrow down the problem

Begone with your logic!

 

[Dolby]

I must have been tired when I posted...

Thanks guys

 

[sajunky]

Worth buying and keeping.
80 bucks or so.

It is cheaper to keep spare cable.

 

[bullzeye.za]

Cable used to work - so not the wrong.

Can't swap them because of the lengths :/ The one PC is 2 meters and the other 15 meters.

I can try transfer a file actually - but would different protocols not maybe use different cables within?
In other words can transfer work, but torrent not - o doesn't it work like that ?

Can't believe nobody answered this;

No, different protocols all use the same copper internally. Could be a routing thing, or perhaps the other PC was eating a lot of bandwidth. Check running programs for network usage.

 

[Dolby]

I think Sinbad did ;-)

 

[Hamish McPanji]

Where u based Dolby? I have a tester....

He lives at a pub in bromhof

 

[DanH]

Those R50 things are not network cable testers. They are network cable continuity testers. They test if there is a simple electrical connection and no shorts. A network cable tester costs a good few R1000 and can tell you the bandwidth the cable is capable of.

Of the 8 copper strands inside your network cable only 4 are used for 100mbit ethernet while 1Gbit ethernet uses all 8.

Prioritising of traffic is not done at the physical layer. So it's not a case of certain streams going over certain wires, but rather all streams being sent over all the wires.