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brundles · 07-02-2009, 20:18

I'm pretty sure I've missed the blinding obvious so this should give someone a good laugh at my expense but it's driving me round the bend...

Spent the day shifting the router, switch and a bunch of other stuff and placing cat 5e cabling around that's connected to the switch and wall plates (again, cat5e standard).

I'm happy with the cable terminations as the other cables done are all working fine (between router/switch and VM modem and router), but I'm pretty sure I'm missing something on the wall plates as it's not working.

The switch (GS608) picks up the cable connection and detects power over the link, but nothing happens beyond that. PC can't get an IP address and the router swears blind there's nothing there. I've also hooked the same cable direct to the router - same thing - the router can physically see it but nothing happens beyond that.

The cables have been terminated to T568A and the jacks on the wall plate have been connected up according to the T568A markings too.

Can anyone spot the (presumably blinding obvious!) mistake?

07-02-2009, 20:18	#1
brundles Inactive Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Berkshire Posts: 1,266	Any cabling experts about? I'm pretty sure I've missed the blinding obvious so this should give someone a good laugh at my expense but it's driving me round the bend... Spent the day shifting the router, switch and a bunch of other stuff and placing cat 5e cabling around that's connected to the switch and wall plates (again, cat5e standard). I'm happy with the cable terminations as the other cables done are all working fine (between router/switch and VM modem and router), but I'm pretty sure I'm missing something on the wall plates as it's not working. The switch (GS608) picks up the cable connection and detects power over the link, but nothing happens beyond that. PC can't get an IP address and the router swears blind there's nothing there. I've also hooked the same cable direct to the router - same thing - the router can physically see it but nothing happens beyond that. The cables have been terminated to T568A and the jacks on the wall plate have been connected up according to the T568A markings too. Can anyone spot the (presumably blinding obvious!) mistake?