So I recently just moved into a college dorm, and me and my roommate were testing the internet. We get about 70 up and down with WiFi, but wired the speeds are sub 10 up/down. We both have cat 6 and have tested both our computers, and we believe the cable in the walls is just really fucking old!
I opened the wall up, and inbetween gasps of asbestos I grabbed a few photos of the labeling on the cable. Can anyone help identify so I can get this sorted out? Ill post all the shots I took, would appreciate the help.
It's jammed into the fucking wall and has no identification other than worn numbers, be my guest, figure it out
Michael Green
>destruction of property so you can get faster vidya
kys you fucking faggot
James Gomez
You go ahead and be happy with 10mbs up and down for your speeds. 10 grand a year and I would expect cable not a decade old
Isaiah Collins
Use wireless you dumb can't it's like 7 times fatser
Colton Wilson
No chip or USB
Matthew Thomas
Here's an idea, siphon in the wifi through a repeater and leave the wires alone. You aren't at school to be playing vidya and if you care about ping like you're some comp playing faggot. You can just kys.
Dylan Sanders
You really think this is fine? Go ahead and have fun, use it for everyday purposes.
Jack Johnson
Might be 10mbps ethernet only? You should ask the IT department to look at it.
Brody Hernandez
Fuck you
Lincoln Hughes
I'll talk to em soon, was just wondering if the cable is gimping the speed or its some other reason. I asked to know if that was really the case, in which I would just suck it up and buy a card.
Ian Robinson
This is the best answer. As OP said here for 10 grand a year he should be able to get something going. You should not be tearing into the wall, though, OP.
Brody Martinez
It doesnt say "CAT" on it so you can't identify what type of cabling it is.
I would highly recommend not fucking with it because cabling is a bitch and it could take months for that shit to get repaired.
Julian Reyes
Everything slotted back in fine, cable had plenty of slack. Won't be taking it apart again, though
Ethan James
Could just be an overloaded ethernet network?
Jose Sullivan
That's a possibility, I've gave it a test at various times of the day and the highest speed was about 9 down.
Christopher Brown
No worries then. Honestly if you have AC you are doing better than most dorms at my Uni which runs 20K a year or better. We do have fiber though :^)
Aaron Gomez
No spiders behind the panel? If you tried that here you would probably have pieces of brickwork and dead bugs all over the carpet.
Jack Clark
80 degrees here now, 87 was in for move in day. We got used to it
Just tons of dusty pink insulation, lucky I didnt get a creepie crawlie
I'm pretty sure this is it, welcome to pre-y2k. Thanks for advice
Nicholas Collins
I do, every fucking day, you stupid spoilt manchild. It's absolutely fine and useable. Jesus christ stop trying to be such a retard.
Jayden Brown
"spoilt" it's like you didn't even read the thread, never change Sup Forums
Ian Campbell
This, OP's Ethernet speeds are part of the new equality program they have.
Lucas Gomez
When I was in a dorm ~6 years ago I got a look at the wifi situation. There were like 6 fairly good long range wifi routers hooked up to a main hub, and then like a dozen 12-way splitters hooked up wiring every dorm room with lan.
sounds like your problem OP. the wifi routers are plugged in as close to the source as your gonna get, your lan connection is probably shared with everybody on your floor through a single port
Parker Sanders
10/1 is the fastest available in my area, there was no service this far out 2 years ago. we were using cell network and a repeater :\
Jose Hughes
I have a "Data B" slot, ill run another check on a different computer for it. If they are almost the same, a single port is pretty believable. But inside I saw two separate wires. WiFi works great, but I'm already strapped for cash.
James White
Here is our side by side using two "supposed" different internet jacks. Done within 4 seconds of eachother
Ryder Flores
what speed does your ethernet card negotiate at? maybe you're plugged into a 10Mbps switch (or even worse, a hub).
Levi Lewis
I'm using the Killer E2200 Gigabit Ethernet Controller on a MSI Z97 Mobo, my buddy has an P8Z77-V Asus mobo and has the same speeds.
Caleb Ortiz
Contact your dorm's maintenance and let them fix it.
Andrew Price
>You should not be tearing into the wall he removed 2 screws calm down spaz
Grayson Martin
This is perfectly usable you autist I have to deal with 0.7 mbps, suck it up
Ryan Morales
>4Mbs is considered "unusable" for everyday purposes
What are your "everyday purposes", hosting a torrent tracker? Hoarding JAVs on your back-to-school macbook? Or are you just so spoiled that you really think 4 Mb is so dreadfully low? Especially considering you're leeching off your dorm's communal internet, news flash, you're not the only one using that connection.
Seriously OP, everyone's asking you but you refuse to respond, what are you ACTUALLY doing that those speeds are "unusable"?
Logan Turner
Use ethtool and check your connection. If the Speed value doesn't match the biggest advertised link modes (Advertised or Link partner advertised) then your cable or the connections are fucked/old. Call IT and tell them to step the fuck up.
If you're too dumb to do that then check how many wires are coming out of the big wall cable. Check the order of the colors and compare them to pic related.
Thomas Stewart
What happens if you go into your NIC settings to auto set the speed to 100/1000mbit ?
Levi Sanders
it's actually more than i do so stfu you crying babie with your class at 10 grand a year paid by your parents
Matthew Reed
>school monitoring internet traffic >they see this page >b& from internet priveleges for dismantling the ethernet system in your room
Gavin Hernandez
That feel when i get 200mbps on a good day for free. Better stop living in a shit tier country
Blake Morgan
I run off less on my home network you fucking tard. Bitch more fag
Alexander Hill
>3.86 Mbps Man, and here I share 3.0 Mbps with 3 other roommates and get along just fine, and I'm a heavy gamer. Won't be streaming anytime soon but if I do need to play vidya I just wait til everyone is asleep or not using the internet. What are you doing, streaming 1080p anime on Crunchyroll? Just watch it in 480p, famicom. As a colledge student all you should be worried about is emailing your homework to your teachers and messaging friends to organize a study hall and actually study. You don't have time to be playing vidya games. You need to be concentrating on getting that degree and getting laid.
Aiden Robinson
That's pretty standard for a shitty dorm room, what where you expecting?
Joseph Hughes
>inbetween gasps of asbestos You just ruined your lungs and damaged property for potential faster internet speed. Nice job asshole.
Jack Richardson
>faggots mistake bits of fiberglass insulation and dust for asbestos This is the sad state of college education.
Jason Lee
>all these butthurt responses my dorm has 700/700 for 5€/month i'm also from eastern europe
Jeremiah Cook
to make things clear, that's in Mb
Levi Wood
God it feels good to be at a Uni that gives a shit about it's internet.
>They're in the process of rolling out AC WiFi to all buildings >They partake in Eduroam
Easton Walker
>tfw glorious Canadian comradenet
Ayden Sanchez
janet = botnet
Josiah Garcia
who is your provider?
Why don't you just buy a pci wifi card for the time being
Xavier Edwards
>going to a university that doesn't provide gigabit connections
sorry senpai
Juan Thomas
University AT Buffalo
Jordan Rogers
Yeah: the full name is State University of New York, University at Buffalo.
Evan Lee
why dont u just use the wifi
Jayden Thompson
Rogers
Charles Cox
>"free" Have fun when the socialism bubble bursts.
Hunter Brown
$50/mo
Upload sucks but I really can't complain for US standards.
Landon Martinez
Maybe he was joking?
Easton Lewis
I was doing 25-man raids on WoW with 0.4 Mbps down / 0.2 Mbps up back in 2010.
Fuck off you whiny bitch.
>Maine
Fucking new england area, always spoiled brats.
Jayden Hall
You have 70 up and down? Just use the Wi-Fi you dumb cunt, that's plenty fast.