[HLUG] Lan problems

[Phil Wood]

Hi Chris

At first I thought it was the nic in the PC. I've switched off the on board
one and fitted a new card. It now works OK except on this one link.

I'm mid way between Hereford and Leominster where abouts are you.

Phil



On 14 October 2013 09:36, Chris Howe <chrishowe14 at aol.com> wrote:

> Phil,
>
> Got a decent tester if you're close by. Also, what switches are you using
> or are you plugging directly into the built in switch on the ADSL? You
> could set up some syslog on the switch. Also the nic on the PC could be
> dodgy, it happens. Another idea would be to temporarily put a Cisco switch
> at the ADSL end and monitor syslog off that and try to reproduce the fault.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Chris
>
> On 14 Oct 2013, at 09:23, Phil Wood <phil at pwood.net> wrote:
>
> > I believe that some of you work with networks and hopefully you can help
> > point me in the right direction. We have a number of cables running round
> > the building linking PCs to the ADSL router.
> >
> > One link is being a bit erratic. I've tested it with one of those cheap
> > network cable testers and all the leds light up in right order. Sometimes
> > it works fine then at other times it says connecting and never gets any
> > further. Is there some software I could run to do a better check on this
> > cable. I could put a laptop running linux at either end. It's going to
> be a
> > bit awkward to replace the cable so I'd like to be sure that it is the
> > cable that is the problem.
> >
> > Many thanks
> >
> > Phil
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