Cstmstyle

Nothing inspired me to plug my router into an outlet controlled by a lightswitch. I just moved in to this house a couple of moths ago and really had no idea that this outlet in the basement was being controlled by the lightswitch. I should have known something would go wrong seems like everything else is screwin with this house so why not the outlets too. P.S Never buy an old house

to make a really long story short the problem was I had my router plugged into an outlet that was controlled by the light switch. Little did I know that was the reason I was getting network cables unplugged errors. I even had a guy come out and he "fixed" the problem by deleting a bridged connection between my firewire port and the ethernet connection. Well the lights were on in the basement the whole time he was there so everything worked as it should. He left I turned off the lights and connection was lost. I figured out the problem when I went back downstairs to look at the router I had the idea that the connectors were just lose in the router ports. While I was doing that my girlfriend turned the lights off on me and surprise router lost power. So moved router to new outlet and everything works now. Also some mentioned just to have Fios give me everything when they come out. Fios made it very clear they don't fish walls or run cables so to try and save money I did it myself. Hey at least the guy who came out said my cable runs and connections look professional.

Thanks for the link wish I had seen that before I got started. I trile checked the connection sequence and it is correct. I am going to try and make a crossover cable run and connect my computer upstairs to my computer in the living room. A friend of mine asked if maybe the router doesn't supprt cat6 cabling, don't see why not its a linksys wrt54g. I don't know I'm running out of ideas

Yes absolutly sure on the wiring sequnece as I made that mistake already following the cryptic directions I got. I had to actually look at a 3 foot cat6 patch cable I had that works and followed that. As for the length one wire is only about 50 feet and the other maybe about 80 feet. Here is the thing I think maybe the EZRJ45 connectors may be crap in general if anyone can confirm this I will swich them out to something better. and an update on the shorts one the first wire I get a short on wires 4 and 5 at 15 meters and a short on wires 7 and 8 at 14 meters. One the ther wire I get the short ne wires 4 and 5 at 22 meters and wires 7 and 8 at 20 meters. I have again looked at the cables and there are no sharp bends or crossing of any other wires. any thoughts?

Hey everyone I hope I can get an answer for this. I'm hoping to get Verizon Fios in a month or so and I figured I would try and save some money and run the networking wire thru the house for my computers instead of paying someone else to do it. Well I ordered some Cat6 cable 500' bulk roll from Controlcable.com and bought the EZRJ45 connectors and EZRJ45 tool. Now after a few tries I finally have correctly wired up the connectors. This is were my first problem began I found that by plugging in the cat6 cable to my computer with a gigabit nic card from linksys and connecting that to a linksys wireless g router and switch the cable works for a minute or so then windows xp shows the network cable is unplugged. The wires are still physically attached. I have ran the Marvell Virtual cable tester and it says I have a short at 15meters on wires 4,5,7 and 8. I have physically inspected the wire casing and everything seems fine. Does anyone know of a way to correct this problem this is occurring on two separate wires. I don't have a line test tool. Should I get rid of the cat 6 or try and use a different style connector for the ends?