Rod First of all - take cold comfort that what you have done (as described) should work. So here are some suggestions/ideas
- how far away from each other are the hubs? If they are more than about 80m apart (by cable length) then you are on the limits of 100M operation - how good is your cable? Did you make the cable and, if so, did you adhere to the Cat 5 standards for making the cable? ie. Number of twists undone at each connector, use of cat 5 jacks etc. 10M Ethernet is a lot more forgiving of these things than 100M. Given that the system works at 10M this could be your problem - especially on a long cable run. Solution - get a professionally made cable. - do you get a link light on on either the switch or the hub or both? You will obviously need link lights at both ends. - given that both devices auto negotiate speed try setting one (if possible) to a fixed speed of 100M. Sometimes the speed auto negotiate won't work if both ends are doing it - although it should. - crossovers or straight through shouldn't matter by the sounds of it. Auto detection of this has been about for a while - the G4 Powerbooks have had this from day 1. Hope this helps Cheers Greg on 7/1/03 3:23 PM, rkevill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi all, > > Having a problem connecting a new 10/100 "auto everything" > Switch to my existing 10/100 hub. > > My old 10/100 Hub (at one end of the house) has 8 ports, one of > which is adjacent to an Uplink port which was used to connect > between this hub and an older 10mb-only hub at the other end of > the house. > > I replaced the old 10mbs-only hub with the new Switch, and > used the existing Cat5 cable to connect to the 10/100 hub, but > the computers at each end could only see "local" > computers/devices connected to the same "end" hub. > > So, although each hub was working fine with the "local" devices, > the two hubs were not talking to each other. A computer at one > end could not see devices connected to the hub at the other end > of the house. > > Is that clear? > > Anyway, I tried all sorts of combinations, even read the manuals > for both hubs. As I understand it, the new Switch shouldn't care > whether the connecting cable is a crossover or not, since it looks > like it "auto-senses" everything, even crossovers? > > I tried a few different ports, with and without crossover, to no > avail. > > So I'm now using the new switch with the old 10mbs-only hub, > and it works fine, but of course only at 10mbs. The local end of > the house works OK at 100mbs, but I only have 10mbs between > each end of the house. > > Any suggestions? > > Thanks > Rod > > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.html> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.html> > Unsubscribe - <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ > >
