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| 354408 | 2005-05-12 09:22:00 | Hey I got a new hub off trademe, and it arived today, and i plugged it in, only to find that it didnt want to work with my 10mbps router (Nokia m1122). I downloaded the manual, still no joy. Can any one tell me why this is? Hub Info: On the front it says Kingston EtheRx 100Base-TX Fast Ethernet Stackable Hub KNE8TX/RS 100BASE-TX Class II (2) Repeater I has two 8 ports, one with 8 X (MDI-X), and an other one with 8 = (MDI), and in the manual it says to use the 8= port for joining to other hubs and routers and ive tried that and it doesn’t work. Could the 100Base-‘TX’ have any thing to do with it? Thanks Daniel |
dwnz (5333) | ||
| 354409 | 2005-05-12 09:24:00 | It's probably broken. What does it do? |
george12 (7) | ||
| 354410 | 2005-05-12 09:25:00 | I have plugged it all in, and transfered data, no probs, its just the uplinking part Daniel |
dwnz (5333) | ||
| 354411 | 2005-05-12 09:26:00 | (meaning the machine cant go on the net, or get dchp ip's) | dwnz (5333) | ||
| 354412 | 2005-05-12 11:30:00 | I have plugged it all in, and transfered data, no probs, its just the uplinking part Daniel What type of uplink cable did the manual specify, straight through or crossover? I take it that this is a hub not a switch? Cheers Billy 8-{) |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 354413 | 2005-05-12 11:37:00 | A quick look at the manual says that MIDX is for crossover cables and MIDI is for straight through. Try one port then the other and something should happen. Cheers Billy 8-{) |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 354414 | 2005-05-12 13:16:00 | Heh it probably doesn't do 10 Mbps speed (I have a hub that only does 100 MBps as well - yes it is odd). The manual doesn't mention auto-negotation etc anywhere... |
gibler (49) | ||
| 354415 | 2005-05-12 20:57:00 | Yea, because it a 100mpbs-TX it wont support 10mbps :(, and i need 10mbps cuz thats all my router is. Daniel |
dwnz (5333) | ||
| 354416 | 2005-05-13 00:46:00 | Maybe that's the answer, but it doesn't make sense. A 100 Mb/s hub should be able to process lower speeds, it cant rely on all data feeds being 100Mb/s. How would it cope with connection to a 10Mb/s network card? I guess there is a good reason though, otherwise we wouldn't see specs like 10Mb-100Mb/s quoted on network cards, hubs & switches. Still doesn't sound right though.:( Cheers Billy 8-{) |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 354417 | 2005-05-13 04:27:00 | I'm afraid that a 100 Mbps hub is meant for use on a 100 Mbps network. :( A hub is a "multiport repeater". It doesn't do anything to the packets but regenerate them, least of all change the rate. The "TX" suffix just refers to the cabling ... TX uses 2 pairs of a Cat 5 cable, just like 10Base-T. 100Base-T4 uses all 4 pairs of a Cat 5 cable. A switch is a more complicated beast. Some can do rate conversion. |
Graham L (2) | ||
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