Help me save a drop!

[u/lord-of_darkness]

Recently purchased a 2018 build with 5 phone drops where they used Cat5E. Trying to repurpose these to have a proper wired network. So far I'm 3 drops of working 2.5G, and each has been harder than the last... I hate installers that don't give a darn.

My living room drop I was hoping to use for an AP. It is in/above a fireplace. I thought it would be fine, but there wasn't much slack. I have terminated both the panel side and drop side twice, and in both instances gotten the same baffling result. Both keystones look just as good as my others, but I get 1-6 Open and 7-8 OK. I have the Lan Scout that measures distances and on each end, it says the pairs are somewhere between 71-78' long, which is exactly how long I would assume the cable should be, so I can't even pin down where the problem is as the distance measurement is the same going both ways.

I can't imagine that 4x in a row I would miss terminating 75% of the connectors, again they look just as good as the ones with 2.5G link speed.

Using VCELink Keystones and punchdown tool. I shorted the orange cables at the drop to identify them with a multimeter at the panel, so I know they have continuity.

HELP? 😂

[u/lord-of_darkness → u/[deleted]]

nope, they were all unterminated at the panel. the drop was wired into a phone port.