RE: CRIME Home network connectivity problem

From: James H. Webb (jimwebb@private)
Date: Thu Oct 17 2002 - 04:23:18 PDT

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    Thanks to everyone for your assistance.  I hadn't thought about the concept
    that I was attaching one hub to another hub even though they were in
    different rooms.  I used the uplink switch and now I'm able to connect two
    pc's from one room using the 4 port hub.
    
    Thanks,
    
    Jim Webb
    
    -----Original Message-----
    From: Seth Arnold [mailto:sarnold@private]
    Sent: Thursday, October 17, 2002 2:43 AM
    To: CRIME
    Cc: James H. Webb
    Subject: Re: CRIME Home network connectivity problem
    
    
    On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 11:26:08PM -0400, James H. Webb wrote:
    > I noticed today that when I attempted to attach a 4 port Netgear 10/100
    hub
    > in one of the rooms to the wall jack that I was unable to connect to the
    > network.  This is the same network that I can successfully connect out to
    > the internet when I have one pc, without the hub, connected to that same
    > wall jack.  I switched cat5 cables.  That didn't help.  I moved the hub
    into
    > another room and the same problem occurred.  I can connect to the internet
    > with one pc, but not after I connect one or more pc's through the hub.
    
    Were you able to ever get any computers to talk to the internet through
    the 4 port hub? Were you able to get any two computers to talk to each
    other through only the 4 port hub? Were you able to get any two
    computers to talk to each other through both the 4 port hub and the 8
    port hub?
    
    Were you using the uplink port on only _one_ of the hubs? (You've got to
    use exactly one -- no more, no less[1].)
    
    Do the answers to any of the previous questions change if you plug the 4
    port hub directly into the 8 port hub, rather than using the in-built
    wiring?
    
    My guess is that you need to use the uplink ports on one of the hubs;
    the 4 port might be 'easier', in the sense that it is more mobile than
    the 8 port hub. But don't use the uplink ports on both. If this isn't
    it, try the other questions as starting points for troubleshooting.
    
    
    [1] with the exception of crossover cables, but this discussion is
    complicated enough without bringing them into the middle of it. :)
    
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    http://sardonix.org/
    



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