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Originally Posted by jsphweid
I make my own cable. I hear that if you make your own, there is a chance that your entire network speed may lower!
Geez!
Joseph
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I fail to see how this is true. (Not all the pins in an RJ-45 are used anyway.) If signals can be sent from one end of the cable to another, you're fine; speed isn't going to decrease because the wire pairs don't perfectly fit into the connector.
The maximum theoretical throughput (speed) for a 100 Mb link is 12.5 MB/sec. However, this does not mean that the speed will be such; overhead, for one, must be taken into account.
On most LANs, pinging--unless clients are connected through multiple decvices--will not give any accurate example of actual speed, since the average ping packet is small and, thereby, easy to transmit very quickly. (Pinging in those situation mostly returns response times of "less than a millisecond," which doesn't provide a good indication.) That is, very small transfers across a fast link are rarely a good measure of the actual throughput.
I don't know why you'd be concerned about data transfer speeds over a home LAN, however. Such is rarely ever a problem: it would be hard to completely saturate the link.
Jam it back in, in the dark.
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