Cabling Issue

[maschineMitel]

We've installed straight thru Cat5 - 568A ( or B for the US ) cable and the Squirrel installer is having trouble connecting.

Question i have is this....the pinouts for the terminal connecting to the host , are the recieve and transmits reversed, unless he's using a 10/100 Switch or Hub to connect, his pinouts must be changed on his patch cords.

Are squirrel terminals LAN capable....meaning can they connect to a hub or switch?

 

[suchasynic]

It doesn't really matter if you use A or B for the cat5 termination jacks, just make sure they are all the same, on both ends everywhere.

All cat5 cables are terminated on both ends, a terminal or printer is connected to one end via a patch cable, then a LAN cable is installed on the other end that goes to a hub or switch. There is one lan connection from the server to this hub/switch which provides connetivity to all the devices plugged into this hub/swtich

The LAN cables that come with the system are standard patch cables, and will work with any hub/switch.

Basically, the whole system uses standard CAT5 topology.

 

[enilc]

Just a minor correction. For the printers the CAT5 is terminated to the same standard, but the cable connecting that termination to the printer is not a standard patch cable, and is not CAT5. It uses a 6-pin termination on the printer end, and a modified 8-pin termination on the other.

But this doesn't help your terminal issue. Let's see if a diagram of what the other person above explained:

Terminal
/ | Cat5 Patch Cable
|
\/
RJ45 termination (B-standard)
/ | CAT5 cable
|
\/
Patch Panel (B-standard)
/ | CAT5 Patch Cable
|
\/
Switch
/ | CAT5 Patch Cable
|
\/
Host PC (LAN Card/port)

Hope that helps.

SC

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