I had to crimp each end twice (with corresponding doubling of rj45 costs) last time I did it!
theres an option you can pass to ping to make it beep each time a packet is received, very handy while you are wiggling wires round the back of the computer! <wigglewire> beep beep beep <wigglewire> silence.....conclusion, this plug is faulty! On Mon, 08 Mar 2004 11:16:15 +1300 Yuri de Groot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > All fixed. > > Sitting at the kitchen table with lappie plugged into the wall socket as I > type this. > > Turns out my crimping skills were substandard. > > I made the following mistakes: > * Unravelled too much twist. > * Misjudged the colour-coding (no, I'm not colourblind) > I looked at a plug on a premade cable and saw: > White, Orange, White, Blue, White, Green, White, Brown > and assumed: > Wh/Or, Orange, Wh/Bl, Blue, Wh/Gr, Green, Wh/Br, Brown > when it should have been: > Wh/Or, Orange, Wh/Gr, Blue, Wh/Bl, Green, Wh/Br, Brown > > After following the links in one of Nick Rout's replies I learned how to do it > correctly. > I have learned a new skill - I have climbed another rung on the ladder of > geekdom. > > Thanks everyone who replied on and off-list and thanks especially for some of > the off-list offers of help I received. > > Yuri -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
