I recently got Ethernet cables run throughout my house and was terminating the wires nuts its my first time so I wanted to be careful and check every wire.I have 2 questions
1 I’m using a laptop to do that and it has a realtek nic but windows has screwed that up.
How do I fix this?
2 Is there any way to know if the wiring has been compromised inside the wall, I’m gonna use a network cable tester for it ,is that reliable as I didn’t have any good reviews on the tools available online.
Any help is appreciated as I don’t want to recrimp the cables and make them shorter and difficult to work with.
Thanks
The cable tester will work, they're not that sophisticated. Not sure what you mean about windows screwing up your network card.
I went through the windows 10 forums and they have a few solutions but they didn't work,so first I thought the cable was bad but then I read a few people have similar problems.
Reset the adapter,the troubleshooter says
"Winsock registries missing"
WiFi works but It seems pointless since I've run Ethernet all around and can't use it.
Completely uninstall the driver. Like fully and reinstall it from the manufacturers website. Make sure you disable signature verification for this. Then it should work
I need specific model numbers to point you to the right situation.
The preferred way to test cable runs is with a cable tester.....like this.
They are cheap and reliable......
Its a realtek pcie GBE family controller ,couldn't find any other info without opening it up.
If you wish to know the full model number of the Gb controller in your board:
Device Manager, locate the Realtek Gb controller.
Right click > Properties > Details tab > select Hardware IDs from dropdown menu.
From there, see what the VEN and DEV strings are.
That for example tells me that it's Intel 82579V adapter
Vendor 8086=Intel > Device ID 1503 from Intel is 82579V.
Subsys_849C1043 tells me that the Subvendor is Asus / it's an Asus board.
While the 849C is Asus's personal subdevice ID in this particular case.
Finding out what the actual ID's mean you can use as an example
www.vendev.ru
www.pcidatabase.com
or just Google
tl;dr
But since it's already says Realtek controller you can just visit Realteks website to download the driver from there.
Here's the PCIe Gb controllers driver download page.
http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/downloadsView.aspx?Langid=1&PNid=13&PFid=5&Level=5&Conn=4&DownTypeID=3&GetDown=false