Said Spencer Ogden on Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 07:28:26PM -0600,
> The Dlink router I have, which I imagine is very similar, seems to have no
> problems with a couple ~50ft runs and one 75-100ft run.
>
> Spencer
>
> On Wednesday 31 October 2001 07:11 pm, Emanuel Masciarelli wrote:
> > 100 is over the standard length (which I believe is 12 feet).
Standard 10BaseT cable length is up to 100 meters.
Same for 100BaseT.
To the original poster: if your cable is home-made, are you sure that
you made the cable properly? It took me a few tries before I got that
cutting-and-crimping business down.
Generally, if you replace a working cable with a new one, changing
nothing else, and things don't work, then you can be pretty certain that
it's the cable.
Also, if you are connecting two hubs (switches, routers, ...) then you
need a crossover cable to get the TXes and the RXes in sync. (The
uplink port in some hardware is basically a crossover port, as is the
port in your ethernet card.) If you're doing this yourself, check the
internet for proper RJ-45 crossover wiring. Be sure you follow the
instructions: 10baseT is picky about which wires twist around each
other.
Oh yeah; you already did this once. Nevermind about the crossover
stuff. But you may wish to redo the longer cable just in case.
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