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Cat 5 requirements
Well, due to me being lazy amoung other things, I havent done jack to it...and its working great! Dont know what it was but i havent had any problems...except sometimes in later part of the night i might get slow..but it hasnt happened for a few days so im all good. THANKS EVERYONE FOR THE... -
Cat 5 requirements
Found something out. When i unplugged everyone from the router, the speed increased and i didnt have any problems, same thing on my bro's machine. I dont know if its the router or Cox (our provider). I guess Cox changed something on thier service and we have yet to change whatever we are... -
Cat 5 requirements
Ill try it, it couldnt be perminent b/c i have roommates but ill check it out. You think that maybe some internet speed boost programs might help? -
Cat 5 requirements
Today i actually was getting really good connection but now tonight its all whack again and i just checked, im getting 36kbps. Dont know, have no idea, i reset my modem and its the same. Im losing a lot of patience as you can guess. -
Cat 5 requirements
my roommate in the room next to me(little closer to the router) is getting 163kpbs. Does his memory have anything to do with it? -
Cat 5 requirements
how sad, here in my room im only getting 86.6kbps,thats really frustrating. -
Cat 5 requirements
What kind of kbps is good for home cable internet, here at my college we get 562.8kbps. -
Cat 5 requirements
lol, fairly sure, i only strip the cable a 1/2 inch maybe. Then i make sure i have it pused up far enough to where the plasic clip can get a grip on it. But last night i said [censored] and cut the cable as short as i needed and put a connector on it, now its much faster but still slower then... -
Cat 5 requirements
Its still slow, and i dont know if its the cable or not, like i said my msn messenger works fine but the internet browswer is so slow! The whole box of cable couldnt be bad right? -
Cat 5 requirements
Ok, i got it going in my room. The thing is that when i first did it and hooked it up only my MSN Messenger worked and i was told that i kept signing on and off and also when i went to open my browser, all i eventually got was server not found. Then i cut off about a foot and a half chunk of... -
Cat 5 requirements
Alright, ill try it out here in a few and let you know. Thanks for the help so far. -
Cat 5 requirements
i really dont know, the router i have is a netgear rp114. We did a test, i had a cable that was about ten feet shorter then the longer one i had. It worked when i went from the router directly to my computer. Then i plugged it into the wall where on the other side there is another cable that... -
Cat 5 requirements
I live in a apartment with 3 other people and we all network our computers together. The problem im having is that my room is about 50 feet away ( i mean in the way we would send the cable [cat 5] through the apt. to my room)and i cant get the internet to work in there. We've done it a couple...
