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| Thread ID: 46520 | 2004-06-26 20:48:00 | What cable to buy for connecting my notebook... | Mcpisik (4924) | Press F1 |
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| 247840 | 2004-06-27 04:37:00 | Thanks. If you were buying it would you just get category 6 and be done with it? Or is it really just of no benefit compared to the 5 in my situation? | Mcpisik (4924) | ||
| 247841 | 2004-06-27 04:43:00 | It won't work. :D There are two pairs used. One is "transmit", the other is receive". The T end at one device has to go to R on the other and vice versa. Because the Ethernet designers live in the real world, there is enough protection in tranceivers to stand a lot of abuse. (There's even a spark gap ;-)). But connecting T-T and R-R just doesn't work. (Except for some clever gear which autodetects and can cope). The ports on a switch, hub, or router are wired one way, the ports on computers are the other so that all the connections in a network can be straight through. This helps to reduce the confusion. One port on a R/H/S might be marked "X", or have a slide switch beside it. This is for expansion (so a straight cable can be used from this to connect to another S/H/R). Plugging a computer into an X port won't work either. ;-) |
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| 247842 | 2004-06-27 04:45:00 | At 5 metres it won't matter. If you were using the full 100 metres, I'd go for Cat6. | Graham L (2) | ||
| 247843 | 2004-06-27 05:01:00 | >Funny, all my computers work fine with crossover cables on the same model router some network cards can autodetect crossover cables and use them as normal cables (afaik). |
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| 247844 | 2004-06-27 05:01:00 | Beauty thanks! | Mcpisik (4924) | ||
| 247845 | 2004-06-27 05:18:00 | So this one below will be ok then?... (Is there any difference between manufacturers? (Seemed to be a heck of a lot of them)) Cat5e PATCH CABLE BLUE 5m (DD000869) Our Price: $10.82 + HIGH QUALITY NETWORK CABLE PI DATE : Feb 2004 TYPE : CAT 5E Patch Cable CORD LENGTH: 4.57 meters CONNECTOR A: RJ45(Cat 5E Straight Through) CONNECTOR B: RJ45(Cat 5E Straight Through) COATING : PVC, Blue DIMENSIONS : 139.7 x 139.7 x 25.4 mm (HxWxD) WEIGHT : 0.16kg * Enhanced CAT 5e UTP patch cable * EIA/TIA Approved * Snagless boots, 350 MHz, 568B * Keeps the network up & running |
Mcpisik (4924) | ||
| 247846 | 2004-06-27 05:42:00 | That'll be fine . Just out of interest check the ports on your router or the manual for such words as auto sensing o (up)link (which are usually auto sensing AFAIK) . I think more often than not a modem/router with a hub will just have one uplink port for connecting other devices to like switches, wireless, etc . Cheers Murray P |
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