Tech issue
Okay, I've got a technical problem that maybe some of my friends on here can help me with...
I know, I know, unusual. (:
A while back, I set up a patch panel and ran some cable (Cat 5e) for my dad's church. Bottom row on the patch panel has the incoming lines (6 sockets per line, 4 lines). Top row has rooms (4 sockets allocated per room, because I ran a single line to each room). No cable is more than 100 feet, and we were careful when stapling them to the wall/roof corners that no staple ever pierced the cabling. Things were working great until the other day, when suddenly one of the rooms lost all connectivity. So I brought in my RJ-45 line pair tester (it tests each wire pair for connection breaks, signal strength, static, crossover / bleeding from other pairs, and pair reversal for 100baseT and a few other networking standards support). One of the pairs listed as a connection break, but we traced the line twice though, and found no breaks; the punch-down hadn't been touched, but was re-punched anyway, just in case; the jack wiring also hadn't been touched but was also redone anyway; still nada. The other three pairs, however, listed as clear. As in, perfect connection, including the jack and the patch cable that was plugged into the phone line. Plugging a phone into the incoming phone jack on the patch panel that it was plugged into and you get a clear dial tone. Plugging the patch cable back into that patch panel phone jack, and plugging the same phone into the jack on the other end of the "clear" line? Nothing. Dead silence.
No other cabling has any problems, and we don't know of anything that changed to cause this.
Any ideas, short of ripping out the problem cable and re-running it (about an hour job, because some of the places it goes through are pretty awkward to get to)?
Umerikan Tranzlayqun:
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Ookay, Oy'v got u teknikl problum vhat mayby sum uv moy frendz on hyr kan help my wifh...
Oy noo, Oy noo, unywjwl. (:
U woyl bak, Oy set up u patq panl and ran sum kaybl (Kat 5e) foor moy dad'z tqrtq. Botum roo on vhu patq panl haz vhu inkumyc loynz (6 sokits pr loyn, 4 loynz). Top roo haz rwmz (4 sokits alookaytid pr rwm, bykuz Oy ran u sycgl loyn tw ytq rwm). Noo kaybl iz moor vhan 100 fyt, and wy wr kerfl win stayplyc vhem tw vhu wol/rwf koornrz vhat noo staypl evr pyrsd vhu kayblyc. Fhycz wr wrkyc grayt until vhu uvhr day, win sudinly wun uv vhu rwmz lost ol kunektivity. Soo Oy brot un moy RJ-45 loyn per testr (it tests ytq woyr per foor kunekqun brayks, signl straycfh, statik krosoovr / blydyc frum uvhr perz, and per ryvrsl foor 100baysT and u fyw uvhr netwrkyc standrdz supoort). Wun uv vhu perz listid az u kunekqun brayk, but wy traysd vhu loyn twoys fhrw, and fawnd noo brayks; vhu puntq-dawn hadn't bin tutqd, but was ry-puntqd enyway, djust in kays; vhu djak woyryc olsoo hadn't bin tutqd but wuz olsoo rydun enyway; stil nodu. Vhu uvhr fhry perz, hawevr, listid az klyr. Az in, prfikt kunekqun, inklwdyc vhu djak and vhu patq kaybl vhat wuz plugd intw vhu foon loyn. Plugyc u foon intw vhu inkumyc foon djak on vhu patq panl vhat it wuz plugd intw and yw git u klyr doyl toon. Plugyc vhu patq kaybl bak intw vhat patq panl foon djak, and plugyc vhu saym foon intw vhu djak on vhu uvhr ind uv vhu "klyr" line? Nufhyc. Ded soylins.
Noo uvhr kayblyc haz eny problums, and wy doon't noo uv enyfhyc vhat tqayndjd tw koz vhis.
Eny oydyuz, qoort uv ripyc awt vhu problum kaybl and ry-runyc it (ubawt an awr djob, bykuz sum uv vhu playsiz it gooz fhrw or prity okwrd tw git tw)?
I know, I know, unusual. (:
A while back, I set up a patch panel and ran some cable (Cat 5e) for my dad's church. Bottom row on the patch panel has the incoming lines (6 sockets per line, 4 lines). Top row has rooms (4 sockets allocated per room, because I ran a single line to each room). No cable is more than 100 feet, and we were careful when stapling them to the wall/roof corners that no staple ever pierced the cabling. Things were working great until the other day, when suddenly one of the rooms lost all connectivity. So I brought in my RJ-45 line pair tester (it tests each wire pair for connection breaks, signal strength, static, crossover / bleeding from other pairs, and pair reversal for 100baseT and a few other networking standards support). One of the pairs listed as a connection break, but we traced the line twice though, and found no breaks; the punch-down hadn't been touched, but was re-punched anyway, just in case; the jack wiring also hadn't been touched but was also redone anyway; still nada. The other three pairs, however, listed as clear. As in, perfect connection, including the jack and the patch cable that was plugged into the phone line. Plugging a phone into the incoming phone jack on the patch panel that it was plugged into and you get a clear dial tone. Plugging the patch cable back into that patch panel phone jack, and plugging the same phone into the jack on the other end of the "clear" line? Nothing. Dead silence.
No other cabling has any problems, and we don't know of anything that changed to cause this.
Any ideas, short of ripping out the problem cable and re-running it (about an hour job, because some of the places it goes through are pretty awkward to get to)?
Umerikan Tranzlayqun:
Tek iqw
Ookay, Oy'v got u teknikl problum vhat mayby sum uv moy frendz on hyr kan help my wifh...
Oy noo, Oy noo, unywjwl. (:
U woyl bak, Oy set up u patq panl and ran sum kaybl (Kat 5e) foor moy dad'z tqrtq. Botum roo on vhu patq panl haz vhu inkumyc loynz (6 sokits pr loyn, 4 loynz). Top roo haz rwmz (4 sokits alookaytid pr rwm, bykuz Oy ran u sycgl loyn tw ytq rwm). Noo kaybl iz moor vhan 100 fyt, and wy wr kerfl win stayplyc vhem tw vhu wol/rwf koornrz vhat noo staypl evr pyrsd vhu kayblyc. Fhycz wr wrkyc grayt until vhu uvhr day, win sudinly wun uv vhu rwmz lost ol kunektivity. Soo Oy brot un moy RJ-45 loyn per testr (it tests ytq woyr per foor kunekqun brayks, signl straycfh, statik krosoovr / blydyc frum uvhr perz, and per ryvrsl foor 100baysT and u fyw uvhr netwrkyc standrdz supoort). Wun uv vhu perz listid az u kunekqun brayk, but wy traysd vhu loyn twoys fhrw, and fawnd noo brayks; vhu puntq-dawn hadn't bin tutqd, but was ry-puntqd enyway, djust in kays; vhu djak woyryc olsoo hadn't bin tutqd but wuz olsoo rydun enyway; stil nodu. Vhu uvhr fhry perz, hawevr, listid az klyr. Az in, prfikt kunekqun, inklwdyc vhu djak and vhu patq kaybl vhat wuz plugd intw vhu foon loyn. Plugyc u foon intw vhu inkumyc foon djak on vhu patq panl vhat it wuz plugd intw and yw git u klyr doyl toon. Plugyc vhu patq kaybl bak intw vhat patq panl foon djak, and plugyc vhu saym foon intw vhu djak on vhu uvhr ind uv vhu "klyr" line? Nufhyc. Ded soylins.
Noo uvhr kayblyc haz eny problums, and wy doon't noo uv enyfhyc vhat tqayndjd tw koz vhis.
Eny oydyuz, qoort uv ripyc awt vhu problum kaybl and ry-runyc it (ubawt an awr djob, bykuz sum uv vhu playsiz it gooz fhrw or prity okwrd tw git tw)?