damaged cat6 cables inside wall?

[luv2liv]

two of my cat6 cables inside my house walls are damaged about the same time.
i verified with the fluke cable map.

what could be the culprit? mouses? or my router went haywire and fried the cables inside?
is there a tool to see where the damage occurred? there's no way i can run the cat cable all over again...

 

[JackMDS]

Pull them and see what coming out.

Here is an example of one type of process.

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/21372-42-router-ports-frying

 

[luv2liv]

Pull them and see what coming out.

Here is an example of one type of process.

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/21372-42-router-ports-frying

i should mention that the cables from Monoprice were installed 5 years ago and working fine ever since.
there were other cables on the same 8 port TP switch and they are fine....and the switch is on surge protector too.

i cannot pull all the cables out because i pinned them down with one of those plastic clips with nails.

 

[[DHT]Osiris]

two of my cat6 cables inside my house walls are damaged about the same time.
i verified with the fluke cable map.

what could be the culprit? mouses? or my router went haywire and fried the cables inside?
is there a tool to see where the damage occurred? there's no way i can run the cat cable all over again...

Generally cat6 doesn't spontaneously break/set on fire, it's very, very reliable. If you have small mammals in your walls, that's not a bad notion. Could also be a nail ended up in one of them, or something. How confident are you of it being partway through the wiring, and not just the wall jack/patching? I've seen that go squirrely from people tripping over cat6 cables and not telling anyone.

 

[Modelworks]

Surge destroying the cables is highly unlikely. A router doesn't have enough power on the ports to destroy the cables without destroying itself.
Rodents are likely at fault since it is two different cables damaged.
Has anyone been hanging pictures or other things on the walls lately ?

 

[sdifox]

Could just be the jack. Did you check that?

 

[ch33zw1z]

Yup, start.at the jacks and verify no loose connections.

 

[luv2liv]

ok.. i will start looking at the jacks tomorrow.
should i get a Distance to Fault machine to see where the damage is?

 

[ch33zw1z]

At least a device to show pin outs. Depends on how much you wanna spend on a tester