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From: Patrick Dunford [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, 8 March 2004 8:53 p.m.
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Fixed: Network (physical layer) broken.
> Commercial cables are available from 0.5 m, however in this length it is
> unlikely to be used excep
Mike Beattie wrote:
On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 11:56:46AM +1300, Fisher, Robert (FXNZ CHC) wrote:
In the last house we built I had 23 rj45 outlets with patches to 14 of them
(6 phones and 8 computers)
Imagine the fun when making up the short patch leads for the patch panel.
I imagine folks ar
On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 12:57:06PM +1300, Craig Falconer wrote:
> That's an end-to-end measurement probably... You're not supposed to have a
> NIC closer than X mm to the switch/hub, regardless of whether its one length
> of cable, or a flylead, in-wall cable and a patch cable.
Yes, end-to-end bet
From: Mike Beattie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>I imagine folks are aware that CAT5 has a minimum length requirement for
100Base-X stuff? >should be around 2.5M from memory..
>There is a *VERY* high likelyhood that I'm wrong, so correct me if so.
That's an end-to-end measurement probably... You'
On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 11:16:15AM +1300, Yuri de Groot wrote:
> * 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
On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 11:56:46AM +1300, Fisher, Robert (FXNZ CHC) wrote:
> In the last house we built I had 23 rj45 outlets with patches to 14 of them
> (6 phones and 8 computers)
>
> Imagine the fun when making up the short patch leads for the patch panel.
I imagine folks are aware that CAT5 h
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From: Nick Rout [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, 8 March 2004 11:30 a.m.
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject:Re: Fixed: Network (physical layer) broken.
I had to crimp each end twice (with corresponding doubling of rj45 costs)
last time I did it!
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!
beep beep beep silence.conclusion, this
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 c
Is the cable in the wall running parallel to power, this would be very bad.
Power and Ethernet do not mix, and the wires should cross at 90 degrees when
they do meet.
Ciao, Dave
> >What else can anyone think of.
>
> Hmmm... You've got an RJ45 on plug crimped on one end and
> a wall plate socket on the other?
Yes
> What kind of cable did you use, solid or stranded?
How do I find out?
> Patch and fly leads are normally made of stranded cable.
> Cat5 for permanant wi
> First check that you have link lights on all ports of your
> switch. Since you have the server and the client
> separately plugged into the switch you should only be
> using straight-through cables. The only pins you need to
> be worried about is 1, 2, 3 and 6. As long as they are
> right t
>I am using DSE's RJ45 plugs on fixed CAT5e wiring quite happily and
>without packet loss (100M though, don't have any giga cards). Are you
>sure mismatching the crimp type would make it so bad as to be unusable?
I've have enough of them fail on first test that I don't bother trying the
flexible c
> They have different RJ45 crimp connectors. The ends of the metallic
> contacts that bite into the strands of the cable when you crimp it are
> different - this on-line shop shows the differences
> http://www.homestead.co.uk/amp45.htm. Dick Smiths only sell the connectors
> for stranded cable.
Wayne Rooney wrote:
Patch and fly leads are normally made of stranded cable. Cat5 for permanant
wiring (the stuff in the 300 metre boxes) is solid cable.
They have different RJ45 crimp connectors. The ends of the metallic
contacts that bite into the strands of the cable when you crimp it are
dif
actually i think this is a better site than the one i just posted...
http://www.swhowto.com/CAT5_Ch1.htm
On Sat, 06 Mar 2004 14:23, Nick Rout wrote:
> http://www.d3data.net/Help/HowTo_WireCAT5.htm
>
> the answer to yuri's question about how much to unravel is 1/2".
>
> On Sat, 06 Mar 2004 13:59,
http://www.d3data.net/Help/HowTo_WireCAT5.htm
the answer to yuri's question about how much to unravel is 1/2".
On Sat, 06 Mar 2004 13:59, Wayne Rooney wrote:
> >I got my crimping tool, rj45 crimp plugs and a flush box at DSE.
> >I put the flush box at one end of the cable and an rj45 plug at th
>I got my crimping tool, rj45 crimp plugs and a flush box at DSE.
>I put the flush box at one end of the cable and an rj45 plug at the other
end.
>So why does it not work?
>What else can anyone think of.
Hmmm... You've got an RJ45 on plug crimped on one end and a wall plate
socket on the other
On Sat, 06 Mar 2004 12:25:47 +1300, you wrote:
>I got my crimping tool, rj45 crimp plugs and a flush box at DSE.
>I put the flush box at one end of the cable and an rj45 plug at the other end.
>
>Tested with LAN cable tester (also DSE) and every pin is connected in the
>right order.
>
>Plug the r
-Original Message-
From: Yuri de Groot [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, 6 March 2004 12:26 p.m.
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Network (physical layer) broken.
I got my crimping tool, rj45 crimp plugs and a flush box at DSE.
I put the flush box at one end of the
Hi Yuri,
First check that you have link lights on all ports of your switch. Since
you have the server and the client separately plugged into the switch you
should only be using straight-through cables. The only pins you need to be
worried about is 1, 2, 3 and 6. As long as they are right the
I got my crimping tool, rj45 crimp plugs and a flush box at DSE.
I put the flush box at one end of the cable and an rj45 plug at the other end.
Tested with LAN cable tester (also DSE) and every pin is connected in the
right order.
Plug the rj45 plug end of the cable into the switch and plug the
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