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Old 07-08-2023, 10:27   #1
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Cat6 Garden/office- cable tested ok - but no internet?

Hi everyone

Wonder if you can help me over the final hurdle of getting hardwired connection in my garden office. I think I'm nearly there but just not getting an internet connection..

I've ran a Cat6 cable from my router to my garden office- around 30m away (in cable ducting)- all inside the walls. I've cable tested from the router end to the face plate in the garden office- where the CAT6 cable terminates. All lights on the tester light up sequentially at both ends- so looks ok in principle. Its just a basic cable tester with lights numbered 1-8. I

Unfortunately, when I connect my laptop via another cat6 patch cable in the garden/office from the face plate- there is no LAN connection at all/no internet at all?

I've tried the following a few times:
Resetting Asus router
Swapping cables over.
Rebooting laptop

Laptop works fine when connected to ethernet or wifi in house. Virgin fibre speeds around 450MPS.

The CAT6 cable is high quality -(solid copper) as I've already ran the cable to a distant bedroom earlier about 25m away and this has worked fine. Not sure if I should just re-do all the connections from the router faceplate to the faceplate in the office?

Thanks in advance.

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Re: Cat6 Garden/office- cable tested ok - but no internet?

Have you connected it at the router end using the same patch cable, and it works ?

[ i.e. just cutting out the 30m ]
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Re: Cat6 Garden/office- cable tested ok - but no internet?

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Yes, I've connected my laptop directly into the router via another cat6 patch cable and it works fine. There's a LAN connection with internet straightaway.

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Re: Cat6 Garden/office- cable tested ok - but no internet?

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Yes, I've connected my laptop directly into the router via another cat6 patch cable and it works fine. There's a LAN connection with internet straightaway.

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Using another patch cable to the router doesn't show if the patch cable to the extention works. You must use the same patch cable to prove it works.
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Yes, I've connected my laptop directly into the router via another cat6 patch cable and it works fine.
Thats not what I said.

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Have you connected it at the router end using the same patch cable, and it works ?
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Re: Cat6 Garden/office- cable tested ok - but no internet?

Hi,

Yes I've tried the same patch cable from the router to laptop- works fine. However using the same patch cable from the face plate in the Garden-office to the laptop - there is no internet.

Thank for your help
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Re: Cat6 Garden/office- cable tested ok - but no internet?

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Yes I've tried the same patch cable from the router to laptop- works fine. However using the same patch cable from the face plate in the Garden-office to the laptop - there is no internet.

Thank for your help
Is there enough length in the garden side to put a cat6 connector on the cable and see if that works, then it's the faceplate that's at fault. And cat6 can't have any sharp bends in the cable run.
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Re: Cat6 Garden/office- cable tested ok - but no internet?

Logically re-doing the connections is the way to go - you have a 50/50 chance of picking the right faceplate!

Hopefully you have enough slack in the wire.

In a worst case are you able to pull the wire through the conduit? If so, you could pull a new wire through - obviously not the first choice.
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