Dew itt right
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So my dad built a new garage (not connected to the house). He mentioned wanting to put a PC in there so I told him when he buries his utilities to run an Ethernet cable from the house.
Fast forward to today - the garage is built and the PC is in the garage. He couldn't connect to the internet so I checked the Ethernet cable with a LAN tester and 2 of the 8 wires were cut somewhere along the way. I rearranged one of the wires so that pairs 2 and 3 and intact hoping to get a 10/100 connection but it's still not working. 2 of the 4 unused wires are still connected. Do they need to be cut as well to force it down to 10/100? I can get the model numbers for the router and NIC if needed. Any ideas?
Fast forward to today - the garage is built and the PC is in the garage. He couldn't connect to the internet so I checked the Ethernet cable with a LAN tester and 2 of the 8 wires were cut somewhere along the way. I rearranged one of the wires so that pairs 2 and 3 and intact hoping to get a 10/100 connection but it's still not working. 2 of the 4 unused wires are still connected. Do they need to be cut as well to force it down to 10/100? I can get the model numbers for the router and NIC if needed. Any ideas?