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Hi All,
Perhaps someone can help? Some years back when building onto my house, I took the plunge and put conduit into the walls for LAN cable, then fitted CAT6 solid cable and hooked up to an entry level 24 Gigabit switch. For some time the LAN performed fine to the areas that it was serving, but recently, there has been a gradual drop in reliability of the LAN. At first I would occasionally loose one of the connection to my study, then the second line to the study started giving uphill and the 1st one doesn't work at all now, I also noticed the longest run to the bedroom started also became intermittent. The line to my AP also dropped out for a while.
At first moving RJ45 plugs from 1 port on the switch to another seemed to resolve the issue, leading me to believe some of the ports were toast, but now it doesn't. However, If I swap a working line with a non working line, the working line will carry on working on the new port (that didn't work on the other troublesome line).
Has anyone had experience like this and what did you find was the problem? Are there any tricks, those involved with networking might be able to offer to sort the problem before I start spending money on new hardware or cabling?
Thanks in advance for any help
Perhaps someone can help? Some years back when building onto my house, I took the plunge and put conduit into the walls for LAN cable, then fitted CAT6 solid cable and hooked up to an entry level 24 Gigabit switch. For some time the LAN performed fine to the areas that it was serving, but recently, there has been a gradual drop in reliability of the LAN. At first I would occasionally loose one of the connection to my study, then the second line to the study started giving uphill and the 1st one doesn't work at all now, I also noticed the longest run to the bedroom started also became intermittent. The line to my AP also dropped out for a while.
At first moving RJ45 plugs from 1 port on the switch to another seemed to resolve the issue, leading me to believe some of the ports were toast, but now it doesn't. However, If I swap a working line with a non working line, the working line will carry on working on the new port (that didn't work on the other troublesome line).
Has anyone had experience like this and what did you find was the problem? Are there any tricks, those involved with networking might be able to offer to sort the problem before I start spending money on new hardware or cabling?
Thanks in advance for any help