slinga
Established Member
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh stupid network cables driving me insane.
I ran a new cable from my router to my sister's computer. It won't work. It was a straight-through cable and it won't light up the linksys ports. I swapped out the network card with another one still nothing. I visually check the wires and everything looks ok. I plug it into a tester and everything tests ok. Any idea what I'm doing wrong? Could the connectors be a factor? I'll post up the model number of the connectors I'm using, but they look like standard rj45. The cable is Gigabit, could that be the problem? I was under the impression that Gigabit cable was backwards compatible with 100 megabit cards. Meaning you could run the higher grade cable, just without any speed gains. Is this correct? If not I'm going to beat the people at Home Depot's ass (hey there networking shit was cheaper). Maybe I'm crimping wrong? What's the "correct" way to crimp a wire?
Also how do I wire a crossover cable? I checked on google, couldn't find a good guide. Thanks in advance.
I ran a new cable from my router to my sister's computer. It won't work. It was a straight-through cable and it won't light up the linksys ports. I swapped out the network card with another one still nothing. I visually check the wires and everything looks ok. I plug it into a tester and everything tests ok. Any idea what I'm doing wrong? Could the connectors be a factor? I'll post up the model number of the connectors I'm using, but they look like standard rj45. The cable is Gigabit, could that be the problem? I was under the impression that Gigabit cable was backwards compatible with 100 megabit cards. Meaning you could run the higher grade cable, just without any speed gains. Is this correct? If not I'm going to beat the people at Home Depot's ass (hey there networking shit was cheaper). Maybe I'm crimping wrong? What's the "correct" way to crimp a wire?
Also how do I wire a crossover cable? I checked on google, couldn't find a good guide. Thanks in advance.