Inability to get DHCP ? No Carrier – SOLVED.
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A speed/duplex hard-set there is not the end of the world.
Not at all. If I had 1Gbps speeds, it would be a different situation. But right now I pay ~30/mo for 6Mbps (I know, sacrilege) or the other option is $120/mo for 100mbps…
Half of me thinks it's 4x the cost for ~15x the speeds, mathematically it makes sense.
The other half of me goes that's $90/mo, 1080/yr that could go towards other things.They forced my connection to 100FD, over 1000FD. Apparently they had a contractor come out and dig/install the fiber, and they stole some of the pairs for TV/phone rather than running separate lines.
It's obvious someone doesn't know what they're doing. Ethernet auto-negotiation takes place at 10 Mb, over 2 pairs. It will then switch to the best common speed, which the NICs think is 1 Gb. However, GB requires all 4 pairs and so will fail. By locking the modem at 100 Mb, it now only needs 2 pairs.
Who doesn't know what they're doing ? The contractor ? Or the ISP ? Or me ? Because definitely me, in addition to whoever else is to blame. There's quite a steep learning curve with this stuff, but it's all very worthwhile. Things we use on a daily basis even with basic router/switch/802.11 radio combo "wireless router"
Yup, cutting corners without a full CAT cable will cause this. Netgate will be glad to know not a SG box problem. :)
Yeah… ISP isn't happy and needed a bunch of info from me as to when exactly I had it installed and other things to (I'm assuming) bring up to the contractor. Since it's a known issue, it makes me think it's in the works to be fixed (small town (50k people live within a 100mi radius) so small companies and limited options. Usually things are resolved peacefully and without litigation.
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It's obvious someone doesn't know what they're doing.
Nah, I wager is one of those just doing enough the get by. Contractor didn't want the hassle to run a new cable, so use old one with 1/2 pairs. this puppy is gonna come up again at upgrade time, hope the cable is outside of DMARC (ISP responsibility) 'cuz if it's inside, customer's expense to fix/upgrade.
The problem is these days Internet connections often exceed 100 Mb. Mine now offers up to 1 Gb. If the contractor takes pairs for phones, then that connection will never exceed 100 Mb, even though you may be paying for more. It's just a bad idea. Incidentally, other than for Gb, there is not a technical problem with having phone and Ethernet in the same cable. The original spec for what became 10baseT (StarLAN) was designed to work over 3 pair CAT3 cable, with one pair used for the phone and 2 pairs for Ethernet. However, these days it is considered bad practice.
I have also seen contractors do lousy work. One for my sister's cable TV company stapled the black coax right down the middle of the living room wall! On the other hand, when I had a cable modem installed, about 20 years ago, the first guy that showed up wanted to run the coax along the baseboards & around doors etc.. I refused. They then sent 2 men, who took 3 hours to fish the cable from one end of my condo to the other. I also had them pull in a couple of runs of CAT5, so I could have network connections at the other end of my unit. They did a very nice, neat job!
