I'll be bringing a pair of 10BaseT 8 port hubs to the next LUGOD meeting. They'll be free to a good home.
Marc --- ME <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sat, 12 Jan 2002, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > > > kevin, is this a crossover cable? my > understanding is that if you > > > connect two NICs together, one (some? all?) of > the lines need to cross over > > > to a different position. > > On Sat, 12 Jan 2002, Gabriel Rosa wrote: > > my understanding is that the two signal pairs need > to reverse, so they match > > up with the right pins on the other side. This is > called a crossover cable. > > > > Most patch cables, as labeled by fry's/etc, are > straight through connections. > > > > My advice would be to buy a cheap hub and make > your life easier, since > > the hub will take regular cabling, and give you > lots of blinking leds > > to tell you what's going on :) > > If you really want to make your own: > http://mike.passwall.com/class/public/ethernet/10T.txt > > 1 and 3, 2 and 6. Why are 4 and 5 skipped? analog > phones use center pairs, > and this allows for those to be used (backwards > compatability thing with > rj45) > > I second the suggestion for a hub. Useful for > company who may bring > their laptops over, and if IP MASQ uis setup, you > can all geek out on the > internet. If you decide to go with a 10/100 hub, > then why not pay the > extra ~$100 and get a Wireless Accesspoint with > 10/100 ports too, and you > can roam in house with WEP and stuff. :-) > > When you consider hubs, getting one with an uplink > port is a good idea for > later expansion. (The uplink port logically does the > same as a patch cable > and switches the Tx and Rx lines to allow you to > connect hub to a hub.) > > -ME > > > _______________________________________________ > vox-tech mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send FREE video emails in Yahoo! Mail! http://promo.yahoo.com/videomail/ _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
