Hi all network gurus, I am need of dire help! I recently did some renovations at home and had an electrician run some network cables and outlets around the house. The idea was that I would connect my Incoming Fiber in the basement to an outlet that then routes it upstairs to my router. Now he used Cat 6 cables and outlets everywhere to prepare for the future. I still haven’t bought any new network gear though as I an happy with gigabit speeds. So this is how I wired it:
However, this does not seem to work. I have previously done my own networking cables and I have always followed the EIA/TIA 568B standard which is common in Sweden. I have now opened the basement and upper floor outlets and this does not look like the same wiring schema. Also, are the blue and orange leads reversed? Could this be the issue? Or do I just have to buy a couple of cat 6 cables and use instead? Would my old Netgear R7000 even work with this? Could you please help me figuring this out?
It should work, … how well would R7000 (and presumably its wifi) cope with whatever amount of crazy bandwidth you end up getting over fiber, is another story.
yellow cable definitely looks like a 568B (hard to tell with the lighter /striped colors
do you have a cable tester or a tone tracker by any chance?
So if you are making a cross over cable yes you would do that A one one side B on the other but you should really do that on the cable if needed not on the jack
Yeah when i run cables personal or business always use at least a basic cable checker. If it is professionally run no good reason it should not be tested with a cable tester that will actually send data to make sure it will at least run gigabit speeds.
