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Cable Problems with laptop(very strange)

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by rmetzler074

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Maybe someone could help me with this perdicament. I made a 25 ft. patch cable to connect a laptop to a cable/dsl nat router for a home LAN. Unfortunately now I only get download speeds at around 50 kbps when connected to the laptop. I figured it was a faulty cable, so i tried using the cable in another machine. Turns out, the same cable transmits beautifully on a desktop computer (now runs at 850 kbps). I tried using another(storebought) network cable on the laptop. It did fine with 2 other different cables. The only one giving me problems is the one i made. But it seems to work fine with the other machine. This is making my head spin trying to figure out why this is happening. I would love any suggestions anyone may have for me. Thanks..

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by johnmaxy

some cables are crossed, others aren't. There is the difference. Some connections only run smooth with the cross -cable, and other connections don't need it.

by wiclrich

Look at the ends of the patch cable you made. Check to see if all eight wires are even with the end of the RJ-45 jack. Sometimes if the wires are uneven you're connetivity will be hit and miss. In other words it may work fine in one machine and not another.

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