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Originally Posted by downquark1
Right, an engineer repaired it by rewiring around the broken connections in the cable - IE the cable hasn't been replaced, he fixed number 4,6 etc.
Does this mean I've lost full duplexing as I seem to get packet loss unless I set it to force half-duplex
edit Make that 10mb half duplex - I'm not particulary bothered about the loss of speed, I just want confirmation on my theory.
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I believe a Cat5 cable has 8 wires, only 4 of which are actually used (you can get "ethernet doublers" to use a single cable for two RJ45 outlets). The engineer has presumably used spare good wires to replace the broken ones.
I don't believe that should have any effect on the duplexing.