I recently swapped and relocated my router. I also bought new Cat6 cables for my 3 Ethernet connected devices, a sky q box, Sony android TV, and a powerline adapter.
Since then I've had issues with the TV every couple of days dropping the Ethernet connection, and it being a pain to restore. Sometimes unplugging and plugging in the cable works, reboot TV or reboot router. All other Ethernet devices are fine. I was suspecting the TV had a DHCP lease issue, but I appear to have solved the issue by replacing the Ethernet cable to TV with a cat5e cable and it's been fine. My question is, why would a cat5 cable be fine but a Cat6 not... The other 2 devices are fine on these cables. I was under the impression cat6 was backward compatible. I would be interested in people's opinions, unless it was just a faulty cable 🤔
Since then I've had issues with the TV every couple of days dropping the Ethernet connection, and it being a pain to restore. Sometimes unplugging and plugging in the cable works, reboot TV or reboot router. All other Ethernet devices are fine. I was suspecting the TV had a DHCP lease issue, but I appear to have solved the issue by replacing the Ethernet cable to TV with a cat5e cable and it's been fine. My question is, why would a cat5 cable be fine but a Cat6 not... The other 2 devices are fine on these cables. I was under the impression cat6 was backward compatible. I would be interested in people's opinions, unless it was just a faulty cable 🤔