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Belated seasons greetings,
I just wanted to ask what others would do..
installed a cat 5 cable to run to the bottom of a garden for a log cabin in summer, approx 30metre run.
the bloke that organised the work was called back as their internet no longer worked and the clients had moved their router and assumed this was the issue.
I was called after the bloke went after work and spent an hour fiddling with the terminations in the cabin, and who knows what else for that long..
he said it doesnt work and he couldnt test anything in the cabin (internet only for PS3 at the moment) as he didnt know how to switch it on.
I, assuming it was potentially an installation issue headed over, purchasing an ethernet testing thing from screwfix on the fly. well i got there and firstly plugged it on to either end of the cable and it showed it was cushty, so then i looked at the ps3, and it wouldnt sign in...strange if the internet works in the house, the cable is fine and nothing has changed, or so i thought.
looked at the settings and it was on wireless, which dumfounded me how the PS3 could go from wired connection to wireless all by itself. so low and behold changed it to wired and it worked...hurrah.
I told the lady of the house, who said 'oh what did you do, my husband spent hours trying to fix it?'
i told her the sitrep and she then said 'hmm ok i probably should've asked my son first, as he moved the playstation inside for a while' where he obviously lacked an rj45 connection in his room and preferred to use a wireless connection..
pain in the ---, as it is something so simple but the finger is pointed at you without hesitance!
didn't charge as expecting some more work from this lot and would consider adding it on the works then.
damn, i seem to have written more than this story justifies...sorry!
I just wanted to ask what others would do..
installed a cat 5 cable to run to the bottom of a garden for a log cabin in summer, approx 30metre run.
the bloke that organised the work was called back as their internet no longer worked and the clients had moved their router and assumed this was the issue.
I was called after the bloke went after work and spent an hour fiddling with the terminations in the cabin, and who knows what else for that long..
he said it doesnt work and he couldnt test anything in the cabin (internet only for PS3 at the moment) as he didnt know how to switch it on.
I, assuming it was potentially an installation issue headed over, purchasing an ethernet testing thing from screwfix on the fly. well i got there and firstly plugged it on to either end of the cable and it showed it was cushty, so then i looked at the ps3, and it wouldnt sign in...strange if the internet works in the house, the cable is fine and nothing has changed, or so i thought.
looked at the settings and it was on wireless, which dumfounded me how the PS3 could go from wired connection to wireless all by itself. so low and behold changed it to wired and it worked...hurrah.
I told the lady of the house, who said 'oh what did you do, my husband spent hours trying to fix it?'
i told her the sitrep and she then said 'hmm ok i probably should've asked my son first, as he moved the playstation inside for a while' where he obviously lacked an rj45 connection in his room and preferred to use a wireless connection..
pain in the ---, as it is something so simple but the finger is pointed at you without hesitance!
didn't charge as expecting some more work from this lot and would consider adding it on the works then.
damn, i seem to have written more than this story justifies...sorry!
