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  1. cowboy405

    Untraceable collisions over UTP CAT5 - noise?

    So Roger was right. Simple test. Run an alternate cable to the offending node. If collisions disappear, cable is the culprit. Could have caught it quick. Rely on tech support that suggests simple solutions first, but MAKE 'EM STAY ON THE LINE WHILE YOU TEST THEM, hehe. Dennis
  2. cowboy405

    Stranded Cable out of Patch Panel

    Ain't no such think as Cat5 stranded. Don't try to run 100 mb on this. . . . . more than 17 feet anyway. You have indoor, telephone wire. Dennis
  3. cowboy405

    Laptop Card Won't work in wall jack

    Hmmm, sound to me like: Your pinout from the router to the wall jack is not 568A or B standard. Your nic in the PC is 10 MB and your docking station is at 10 MB. When you try your pc card in the wall jack it's trying to TX/RX at 100, it gets return packets, but no data. If you can hard set...
  4. cowboy405

    Mac's and Ethernet Switches

    Welllll, Mac's using appletalk do not use the physical(MAC) address of the nic installed in them. Appletalk advertises a software originated physical address to see if it is in use. If not, that's the physical address assigned to the node. This physical address is not ethernet compliant. So...
  5. cowboy405

    Video Card/Monitor trouble

    You'll find your problems solved by replacing the video card. You didn't tell us whether or not you've tried the same monitors on on different machines. That's your first diagnostic tool. Dennis
  6. cowboy405

    W2K Prof STOPs - Culprit my new SDRAM??

    Sounds like a speed mismatch. Check your SIM's for speed on the original and your upgrade. Parity is also a problem, only if there is a parity mismatch. Gotta keep things equal in the banks. Dennis
  7. cowboy405

    New Computer Problems

    Use the IDE port. DOS, did you set the drive as active? If not, it won't boot to it. Also, check to see if you have an AGP video card. If so, ditch it. Replace with something else and I think you'll have a clean install. Dennis
  8. cowboy405

    Home Networking problem

    If you get link lights, the card is fine. Network to your machine, not the router. You're connecting via a hub or a crossover cable? Anyway, you have a Nic on your machine with a static ip address. Have him imput that ip address as the gateway on his machine. Dennis
  9. cowboy405

    Networking with DOS

    After you get the NDIS 2 driver for your nic, you still need a client on your boot disk to communicate with Win networks. Microsoft does provide this dos client. I found it about a month ago at: http://oem.microsoft.com Sign up, it's worth it. Dennis
  10. cowboy405

    Mac's and Ethernet Switches

    Test Question, Has everyone figured out why an ethernet hub works just fine in a MacIntosh network and an ethernet switch doesn't? Hmmm? Dennis
  11. cowboy405

    Problem with network boot disk

    Hurray!!! It's all still really a dos based system. Every tech should be study dos. Good solution Zach. Dennis
  12. cowboy405

    Can't reach (telnet) fax server for remote admin

    Uh, is your outside IP address in the range and your subnet identical to the subnet inside the network?
  13. cowboy405

    watching NET users

    Don't be a vouyer. They're getting their work done. Dennis
  14. cowboy405

    Network collisions

    Be sure both nic's are at half duplex. Hubs do not support full duplex, and a duplex mismatch will produce exactly what you describe.
  15. cowboy405

    Network Speed

    Hi Stevieboy, I can't find your switched hub on Planet's homepage. But from the little I can find, they have 2 10/100 uplink ports, the other ports are at 10. The "switch" function is apparently between the 10 ports and the 10/100 uplink ports. The machines on the 10 ports are...
  16. cowboy405

    Workgroup Problem

    Simple stuff first, Be sure you have link lights on all nic's. If not, check cables and connections. Substitute cables. Try another port on the hub or switch. Can each machine see itself in network neighborhood? If not, check all networking settings. On each machine, ping 204.0.0.1 to test...
  17. cowboy405

    Ethernet 5-4-3 segment interconnection rule

    10-base-2 The 5-4-3 rule is 5 segments, 4 repeaters, with 3 segments "populated" not hosts. Each segment limited to 185 meters. Ethernet 10BASE-T Rules The maximum number of repeater hops is four. You can use Category 3 or 5 twisted-pair 10BASE-T cables. The maximum length of...
  18. cowboy405

    Link over WAN connection faster than 100Mb connection

    It would be revealing if you disabled all protocols but NetBEUI and ran the tests again. Dennis
  19. cowboy405

    sharing a cat5 cable

    If going more than 17 to 20 ft at 100 mb crc errors, runt packets and collisions will degrade your performance when sharing pairs. At 100 mb, I'd get a cheap hub. Dennis

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