can you get some photos ?

sounds like the phone needs a coupler/joiner

and the rest just a switch in the new office with a single extension out to it

Quote from: knighty on July 23, 2013, 20:49:12 PM
can you get some photos ?

sounds like the phone needs a coupler/joiner

and the rest just a switch in the new office with a single extension out to it

Quote from: knighty on July 23, 2013, 20:49:12 PM
can you get some photos ?

sounds like the phone needs a coupler/joiner

and the rest just a switch in the new office with a single extension out to it

Thats the easiest & most logical way.
Extend the phone cable.
extend one data cable & put a switch on the end.

Quote from: Eggtastico on July 24, 2013, 06:58:49 AM

Quote from: knighty on July 23, 2013, 20:49:12 PM
can you get some photos ?

sounds like the phone needs a coupler/joiner

and the rest just a switch in the new office with a single extension out to it

Thats the easiest & most logical way.
Extend the phone cable.
extend one data cable & put a switch on the end.

see, i so nearly wrote these two simple replies last night myself. along with an added dash of "if your IT guy hasn't already suggested this then show him the door, he's crap".

but i decided that was too negative and ive got to be more positive.



meh.

We don't have an IT Dept Just one guy who half looks after it, but he's is an accountant. It's use maintenance boys who run in the cables, and make off the ends.

Hence zero knowledge

I couldn't get any photo's as I wasn't in today, but I've ordered some couplers, so will give them a go. The phones use Cat5 cable too, not normal phone cable. I'll use the couplers where the computer and phone currently is, and see if they work ok with extended cables. If so, we'll pull them back, use the couplers, then run new lengths to the new area.



Cheers

100mtrs is pretty long, think its max length of cat5e for 100mbit operation.

If you get network errors try dropping the speed to 10mbit, or upgrading to cat6.

Quote from: M3ta7h3ad on July 25, 2013, 00:59:12 AM
100mtrs is pretty long, think its max length of cat5e for 100mbit operation.

If you get network errors try dropping the speed to 10mbit, or upgrading to cat6.

& re terminate the cable

Im suprised a pair of home plugs have not been suggested

My computer and the engineering managers computer are probably the furthest away from the server, and we randomly get network errors actually! How do you drop from 100mbit to 10mbit?

You change the adapter settings in device manager, look under Advanced or a Link Speed tab in the devices settings.

Brilliant, thanks

We built a new office quite a distance from the server, and the IT contractors use optic to get to there then another switch/server thing, but even then, that new office is too far away from us

then you need another piece of fibre and another switch near yours and your managers desk.

its simple.

That's beyond us to be honest! I doubt they'll pay for a contractor to do it either.

i despair of companies that wont pony up a few hundred quid to get sh*t like this sorted. i don't know why but i always end up working with them. current employer is paying me a fortune for the actual workload they're asking me to do (a different rant altogether) but i came in for some 3rd line/build config for san and citrix work and they give me a 4 year old laptop to use.

just pay someone to come in and sort it. it'd be done already!!!

haha, if IT fell under the engineering department, it would have been done! But, for some reason, the "IT dept" is under the control of finances....hence no spend 

same story where i am right now!!!i even asked how it affected IT spends, when the person signing them off was finance director and therefore tasked with saving the company money at the interview.