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- Feb 3, 2005
I set up a network in an office for a friend. It is beside his house and when he first started building the office he told me that he'd like to have the network expanded into the house. I told him to get a network cable put in when he was getting the wiring done by the electrician.
Instead of putting in a normal CAT5e cable the electrician put in some cable that has 20 strands in it. I thought it was an underground cable specifically for networking or telecommunications but now I'm not sure. There was no twisted pairs like in a normal network cable so I picked 8 wires to be the network cable. I connected it to the switch and then in the house I connected a wireless access point.
The problem is the connection is unstable. It drops in and out and when you ping the switch up to 1 in every 4 packets sent are lost. I am looking for ideas on how I can get this to work. I cant add a network cable to the rest of the cables underground as they are buried and covered with concrete.
Instead of putting in a normal CAT5e cable the electrician put in some cable that has 20 strands in it. I thought it was an underground cable specifically for networking or telecommunications but now I'm not sure. There was no twisted pairs like in a normal network cable so I picked 8 wires to be the network cable. I connected it to the switch and then in the house I connected a wireless access point.
The problem is the connection is unstable. It drops in and out and when you ping the switch up to 1 in every 4 packets sent are lost. I am looking for ideas on how I can get this to work. I cant add a network cable to the rest of the cables underground as they are buried and covered with concrete.