Diagnosing Network Problems

[paulrockliffe]

Actually, just realised there is a relatively easy fix if the issue comes back - the cable enters the house in the corner of my bathroom under the floor. It's under a cabinet, so I can access it there and put a switch there instead without making a mess, then run as many cables as I need or to the workshop and replace them if the break too until the conservatory you can see becomes an extension and the cables to the workshop go underground.

[paulrockliffe]

Thanks, it's good to know there's someone here that properly knows what they're talking about!

Speedtest is still showing it's all working as it should as far as I can tell, I've just tested it now, so I'll let sleeping dogs lie as long as I can. Apart from the CCTV that's hooked up in the workshop for convenience, I have a PC out here that I use for Googling things or watching sport on while I'm working, so it's not mission critical exactly.

There's no way I can replace the wire in the containment, it's heat-shrink wrap stuff and if you dig through my renovation thread from 11 years ago you'll see that the only way I got the wires in there in the first place was to plug a hose-pipe on one end to lubricate everything while I pulled the wrap over the wires! Once it was dry again and then the wrap shrinked over the cable it became a permanent thing.

But it would be no bother really to remove the bathroom cabinet, terminate the cable there in a switch and run a new cable clipped to what's there now, except that as soon as I do that my wife will start asking about the new bathroom that we really need - it all got a bit trashed when the ceiling was pulled down as part of putting another room on top - so it will spiral into a massive job involving underfloor heating, moving the shower, constructing a cupboard, just for the sake of fitting a new cable, so I have to tread very carefully!