[KLUG Members] switches vs. hubs

[Rusty Yonkers]

> 
> Switched, button pushed to "uplink" and yes, both units have been
> power 
> cycled.

Do you get green lights on both switches showing good connectivity?? 
Is your cable run very long?  If you have a long run check to make
sure that the cabling is correct.  I know that when I was initially
taught to cable I was taught to just run the colors from left to
right.  Well for longer runs that will not work because you will be
defeating the functionality of the twisted pair.  1 and 2 need to be
one color pair (the standard is either striped orange/orange or
striped green/green, and 3 and 6 need to be another pair, standard is
opposite of what you just used above.  You would then put blue in 4
and 5 and brown in 7 and 8 (actually they are not even used truth be
told).  I have seen situations if the person just went like orange,
green, blue, brown then a hub would work but a switch would not. 
Don't ask me why because I do not know or care really just that it
has happened for me...  Oh and long would be like over 20 or thirty
feet.  



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Russell C. Yonkers Jr. 
CNE, MCP, A+, CCNA, Linux+, Server+, Network+ certified
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Currently using SuSE 9, Mac OS X, Windows 2000, and WinXP 
And yes I run a network at home with Linux and Windows servers

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