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Just to clarify, there's a Cat 5 cable with an RJ45 on one end and the other end is the wall jack (with a Cat 5e cable plugged in). The cable tester shows pin 1 on the Cat 5's RJ45 is connected to pin 1 on the Cat 5e's RJ45, pin 2 is connected to pin 2, etc. If all RJ45s are properly following...

Can you elaborate on this? The free end of the Cat 5 cable is T568B, so if the network cable tester shows correct output, doesn't that mean that the white/orange wire is connecting pin 1 to pin 1, the solid orange wire is connecting pin 2 to pin 2, etc?

No, it's about half as long as the longest run. I'm using a cable tester that blinks 1 through 8, one at at time (tested by connecting the main body to the Cat 5 cable and the remote to a Cat 5e cable plugged into the Ethernet jack). It gives normal results, doesn't that mean that all the wires...

One Ethernet jack in my house is slower than the others. Iperf measures 1 Gbit/s between PCs on all other jacks, but only 95 Mbit/s to the slow jack. A network cable tester finds no issues with the cable going to the slow jack. However, all cables in the wall are Cat 5 (not 5e). Am I just...

My apartment came with a router but I'd prefer to use my own hardware. What's a decent router that can handle at least 400 Mbps wifi that will fit in this compartment? Preferably one that has good custom firmware support. I value stability over performance. For comparison, the existing router...

Thanks Merlin. Looks like the modem (Motorola SB6121) was having issues every 30 minutes: Jun 18 2014 15:16:05 6-Notice D106.0 DHCP Renew - lease parameters tftp file-?BExV7kGkeqRy+IwK8k40@CvJONPRYo5oy63Hy1QSpbH3K2XAxhFDA...

Today I started losing the internet connection on my router. It is not a wi-fi issue since I am connected through ethernet. The internet would suddenly stop working, but it would come back in a minute or so. This seems to happen every 30 minutes. It just started happening today. Is it a router...

Does changing QoS settings require reset? I.e., will my wifi connections be interrupted? Can't afford to drop any connections right now. I'm using 3.0.0.4.318 firmware. Thanks!

Is it a complete ripoff to pay $30 more for the E4200 when the RT-N56U has better benchmark scores? Also, is there any problem with buying a draft 2.0 wireless n adapter (versus non-draft)? Would a Rosewill RNX-N150UBE Wireless Adapter have any problems with those two routers? Thanks for reading.