Travis Lamoureaux

Let's see - My house was built in June of 2013, so it's almost brand new. I think these issues have existed for a while but I was never doing anything intensive enough to notice any of the issues. I'd notice the occasional inconsistent speed but never keyed into it until I tried downloading larger files the last few weeks. I checked the cables that run to the panels and they all say Cat 5e. The dmark cable appears to come straight from the box and into my basement. Maybe a grand total of 8 feet of cable, with the remaining cabling running a max of 100 feet. So all in, the longest line is maybe 150 feet. Or it should be. To clarify, the demark cable runs into the basement and has a connector. I then hook it into a router and that router hooks into the 4 prewired cables that run into the living area of the house. I've attached some photos - I'm hoping that makes things look a little more clear. I didn't include a photo of the "box" outside, I can't get into it. Escuse the rat's nest of cables, I'm hoping ugly doesn't affect anything.

Hi guys! I'm brand new here but I think I've come to the right place! The details - I have "fiber to the home", so no modem or anything like that. All I see on my end is a gray box on the side of the house and a cable labeled "demarc" that runs into my basement. That cable is (for lack of a better word) my "pipeline" from the ISP. When I plug the demarc cable directly into my laptop and run speedtests I get a conistent 10+ (averaging 10.8 mbps) which is consistent with what I'm supposed to receive. My home is prewired with ethernet ports in 4 different spots. I've only been able to test two of the ports (the others are blocked by incredibly heavy furniture) but the results are the same: My speeds are all over the place and very, very rarely get over 5-5.3mbps. I'll get one speedtest, after I plug in my cable, that comes in the 10-11 range but almost all of the following tests will run at 1-5. I've used 2 different routers - The first was an Asus RT-N56U and I just recently, hoping it would fix the issue, switched to a TP-Link TL-R860. The problem has not improved or changed at all. I don't have any equipment to test the wiring but that's the only thing I can think of that might cause the problem - seeing as at the "pipeline" I'm getting proper speeds but I'm also 100% not a networking/computer guy. Thanks!