In a nutshell my main router [R] is in my office downstairs (now an Asus Ax86u Pro)
When we 1st moved into the house a decade a go I asked an electrician to run a 20m Cat5 cable from here to the loft (2 floors up) which I terminated to a gigabut switch
From that switch (S) I had him do cable drops to each bedroom as a future proofing "just cos"
I only really used it in 1 bedroom where I used the ethernet port to service a Wifi Access Point
In truth the wifi has been rubbish upstairs for ages but it was always a "will sort it when I go Mesh"
Since I got the AX86u I moved my older Asus AC86u to the same bedroom as my AI Mesh [M]
Mesh has been up for a couple weeks and I spotted wifi is only 92MB upstairs and so looked harder and I see:
The [R] port where the cable to the loft is plugged into shows 100MB (ie "yellow)
In the loft at the (S) port also shows yellow both for this cable FROM downstair but also the cable that runs TO the bedroom/Mesh router
The [M] port also shows yellow/100MB
All other ports on Router all Green/Giga
Moving the loft cable to another post makes that yellow
Moving cable in the loft to another one still yellow (the one to CCTV is green)
The cable from (S) to [M] is showing yellow/slow at both ends and the Mesh connection reads "okay" not "great"
I brought [M] downstairs and cabled it directly to same ports on [R] and both went green "great" connection
SO
1. Will a cable show as slow speed at BOTH ends if the terminal at one end is not terminated properly
2. The run from (S) to [M] is basically the WAN for the Mesh so if it is throttled at (S) that means it will be max 100mb at mesh right? rather than necessarily meaning that cable is also shonky? Im not sure about this as the CCTV ethernet from (S) to PVR shows green on the Switch but the one to the Mesh yellow
I am just trying to understand if I need to try to snip and re-terminate the long cable to the loft at both ends or try 1 at a time (ditto impact for the other cable drops to the bedrooms)
Other option if the cable is damaged in the long run somewhere (it is only 10-20m max) is to work out how I can do another run from my office perhaps to the bedroom immediately upstairs and move the Mesh here (although it reduces the benefit as current locaiton is diametrically opposite location in house so best for wifi coverage)
One floor up might is managable - how to get it from bedroom to loft will be much more difficult as current cables are trunked in unless I sacrifice the drop from loft back down to this bedroom to use it to pull a long cable up from office to the loft as it travels via this bedroom but it is now very messy and boarded in the loft a decade later - switch in Loft is needed for some devices and the drops to the other bedrooms
Sorry this reads so convoluted
When we 1st moved into the house a decade a go I asked an electrician to run a 20m Cat5 cable from here to the loft (2 floors up) which I terminated to a gigabut switch
From that switch (S) I had him do cable drops to each bedroom as a future proofing "just cos"
I only really used it in 1 bedroom where I used the ethernet port to service a Wifi Access Point
In truth the wifi has been rubbish upstairs for ages but it was always a "will sort it when I go Mesh"
Since I got the AX86u I moved my older Asus AC86u to the same bedroom as my AI Mesh [M]
Mesh has been up for a couple weeks and I spotted wifi is only 92MB upstairs and so looked harder and I see:
The [R] port where the cable to the loft is plugged into shows 100MB (ie "yellow)
In the loft at the (S) port also shows yellow both for this cable FROM downstair but also the cable that runs TO the bedroom/Mesh router
The [M] port also shows yellow/100MB
All other ports on Router all Green/Giga
Moving the loft cable to another post makes that yellow
Moving cable in the loft to another one still yellow (the one to CCTV is green)
The cable from (S) to [M] is showing yellow/slow at both ends and the Mesh connection reads "okay" not "great"
I brought [M] downstairs and cabled it directly to same ports on [R] and both went green "great" connection
SO
1. Will a cable show as slow speed at BOTH ends if the terminal at one end is not terminated properly
2. The run from (S) to [M] is basically the WAN for the Mesh so if it is throttled at (S) that means it will be max 100mb at mesh right? rather than necessarily meaning that cable is also shonky? Im not sure about this as the CCTV ethernet from (S) to PVR shows green on the Switch but the one to the Mesh yellow
I am just trying to understand if I need to try to snip and re-terminate the long cable to the loft at both ends or try 1 at a time (ditto impact for the other cable drops to the bedrooms)
Other option if the cable is damaged in the long run somewhere (it is only 10-20m max) is to work out how I can do another run from my office perhaps to the bedroom immediately upstairs and move the Mesh here (although it reduces the benefit as current locaiton is diametrically opposite location in house so best for wifi coverage)
One floor up might is managable - how to get it from bedroom to loft will be much more difficult as current cables are trunked in unless I sacrifice the drop from loft back down to this bedroom to use it to pull a long cable up from office to the loft as it travels via this bedroom but it is now very messy and boarded in the loft a decade later - switch in Loft is needed for some devices and the drops to the other bedrooms
Sorry this reads so convoluted
