Datalink wrote:Thats a great result. It's basically the same (read identical results) that I am seeing in my house. A very nice improvement. When you were doing the initial testing and went from 35 to 94 Mp/s, was that with the 10/100 switch still installed? If so, I'm wondering what Rogers did to get that speed up to 94Mp/s with the 10/100 switch installed. And when you installed the gigabit switch, I'm assuming that the improvement was instantaneous? Just wondering. Did you have to do much work on the keystones at all? Details, details, details....
For anyone wanting to see the test result, you have to copy the link and paste into your web browser and then delete the tailend "period" before hitting enter. If not, the address fails to direct the browser to the correct page.
The end result went from 35 Mb/s to 327.58 Mb/s download and 20.96 Mb/s upload.
Yes, it went from 35 to 94Mbps with the 10/100 switch attached.
Actually i do think that it's already 250+ by that time, it just shows 94 because of:
1. the hacked Cat5e cables (limits the ethernet to 100Mbps max. It won't give you lower than that, it just won't take you to gigabit speed.)
2. the i-don't-know-how-old-it-is 10/100 switch.
that was the next two issues we needed to fix.
the gigabit switch arrived by the end of Friday and I got the new tools (puncher+keystones) this afternoon.
The hacked cables only has 1 pair of wires (blue/whiteblue) on both ends connected to a phone jack so punching them back into the ethernet keystone fixed it.
That took less than 5 minutes, and to think that i have no experience doing these kind of things in the first place, it's quite easy.
About what Rogers did to get the speed back up, i don't know. More like they set the wrong download speed, who knows?
