This is one of those problems that is making me go RHAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Ok in the new dwelling I ran wires for a new network. This worked great (perfectly) until her majesty wanted all the little blue boxes moved across the room they were in. I made up new wires and moved everything.

Hardware:
Netgear FA310 NIC
Realtek RTL8139 on board NIC
Netgear PS110 print server
Netgear FS105 switch
Linksys BEFSR41 Cable router/switch
Magic box from cable company housing digital phone and Cable internet modem

Software:
Windows XP Pro, SP2 all updates current.

Ok so everything was relocated, I made up 3 wires of similar length to run from where the wires come out of the wall to the new location of the boxes. I crimped on connections, bundled the wires with plastic wire ties and ran them along the wall. There is some Coax (CATV) in the bundle for part of the run (8ft approx). The whole run of wires from the wall to the boxes is probably 35ft. There is probably another 40ft of wire from the computer to the wall outlet in that room (includes whats in the wall/ceiling).

I fired up my computer, and the new setup could not pick up an IP from the router. It could see it but Windows was giving me some limited/no connectivity crap. I tried release/renew many times as well as the windows "repair" function. I pulled the wires out of the switch, and put them into the router/switch. same problem. I dumped the Netgear card and started using the Realtek onboard NIC, the problem persisted. I pulled out Norton internet security, it made no difference. I restored Windows to a previous date, to no avail.

I ran an old wire across the middle of the floor because it was not long enough, went straight into the back of the router and restarted everything.. That solution got the internet back up.

This led me to suspect my wires were flawed. I checked all my wires with my tester and I have continuity on all contacts on all wires. I switched wires around and the problem persists. I suspected the Netgear switch was bad, I don't think it is. the appropriate lights come on when I plug in my PC and when I plug it into the router. I suspected the Router/switch was FUBAR but it sees everything fine as well, I reset the router and set it up again to be sure, and nothing changed.

I think it is so wierd that the wire across the middle of the floor works but the wires along the outside of the room don't. This one has me scratching my head, I am running out of things to try.

I am probably going to make new wires as soon as the sack of connections I ordered shows up because that is the only thing I can think of.