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Found out my building's "gigabit" internet is actually 300 Mbps because of one $12 cable from 2011
I was killing time on a slow Friday and ran a speed test on the office line just to see the numbers. Got 298 down. Our IT guy swore up and down we pay for gigabit, so he came over and traced the line back to the patch panel. Turns out the run from the panel to our switch was a Cat5 cable someone installed back in 2011, and it was capping everything at 100 Mbps per port. He swapped it for a $12 Cat6 patch cord and we jumped straight to 940. Twelve dollars. Our whole floor was crawling for who knows how long because of one old cable nobody bothered to check. Has anyone else found a stupid cheap fix hiding behind a big problem like this?
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hugo508d ago
That's the worst part about this stuff, the fix is always dumb cheap and the hunt takes forever. Reminds me of the time I spent two hours chasing a "network issue" on my home setup before realizing I'd plugged the cable into the wrong port, so I'm not even allowed to laugh at your IT guy. At least it was twelve bucks and not a whole new switch or a contract upgrade. Bet that speed test felt like Christmas morning when it hit 940 though.
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