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I spent ~$35 on new cables and my LAN speed increased 6x (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 2 years ago by anonymouse2@sh.itjust.works to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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After seeing that my wireless speeds were much faster than the speeds I was getting over Ethernet, I decided to invest in some new cables. I didn't know it before, but I saw while I was changing them out that my current cables were Cat 5e. While putting my network together, I had just been grabbing whatever cables I could find in my scrap drawers. Now I have Cat 8 cables and my speeds jumped from 7MB/s to an average of over 40MB/s. It's a much bigger improvement than I expected, especially for such a small investment.

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[-] catloaf@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

But that depends on the card. And some gigabit devices won't do 10Mb at all.

[-] IMongoose@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

We upgraded our network and had old as shit devices that now need a dumb switch hooked into our $80k or whatever cisco switches because they can't do 10Mb lol

[-] dgriffith@aussie.zone 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

True. Hence my caveat of "most cards". If it's got LEDs on the port, it's quite likely to signal which speed it is at with those LEDs.

I haven't yet come across a gigabit card that won't do 10Mbit (edit: switches are a different matter) but sometimes I've come across cards that fail to negotiate speeds correctly, eg trying for gigabit when they only actually have a 4 wire connection that can support 100Mbit. Forcing the card to the "correct" speed makes them work.

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