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Your LinkIQ reports a predicted speed of 100Mb/s even though a wire is broken in the cable and you wonder whether the speed prediction is at fault.

  • Example Test Result
  • Explanation

Example Test Result

Link IQ reports an OPEN for pin 

    10 / 100 Mb/s does not require all 4 wire pairs

This may happen if pin 4, 5, 7 or 8 is at fault because they are not needed for transmission speeds of 10 or 100Mbps. Only pin 1, 2, 3 and 6 is needed.

In this second example pin 3 is broken and no data transmission will be possible at all.