Originally Posted by
Squawk7777
Update:
I finally managed to find some of my zen and sanity to calmly look into my cabling issue. I ended up replacing the expensive outdoor-rated cable with a cheap one from Amazon and voila! it worked! I have no idea what caused the old cable to show ok with my cheap cable tested but causing issues when connected. It's the first time I ran into this issue, I had crimped various cables at my old house.
@netstruggler thank you for all your input. May I ask you what tester you use to test speeds? All I have previously done was connecting the ol' laptop and go to testmy.net
We have a tester at work; it cost a few Łk but it's very useful. It'll tell you if you have a short or open circuit and how many meters away it is. We use it for testing twisted pair modem cables over several kilometers. On Ethernet links it will inject ethernet packets and report error-rates and so on. I'm working from home at the moment but so I can't remember the brand. I don't think it's this one but it's this sort of thing.
SignalTEK CT
I'm not generally allowed to borrow it for home use
I'm not surprised you had trouble with an expensive cable. They can be harder to work with and may need special connector components and a special crimp tool, as opposed to the stuff that's easily available from you-know-where.
At work, where we can, we buy ready made Ethernet cables, test them in the office and then pull them through. Not always possible though.
Glad you're up and running.