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
