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thats a fair point.... still hate them though
hell yeh, espesually if you've got a nick in the bottom slot of the case!
but they do have a purpose.
On the topic of the thread, i tend to buy my cables pre-made, as self crimped ones tend to be less stable, not to mention i only ever have solid core wire handy, you want stranged for cables as they should flex, but solid core when running it through the house (to socket face plates and the like). The cost isn't much greater than doing them yourself, and i'd rather spend the extra £1 on 10 patch cables. Sockets look neat, and increase the value of your house, if your renting to students it makes it so much easyer to find tennents (apparently!) So as it costs about £10 per room, + shead loads of effort, its worth it imo.
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I'm just wondering now with the gigabit network... are you connecting more than 2 devices to it?
Do you have a gigabit hub/switch?
ok ive found my cable is got a cross section plastic running through it does this matter im just about to attempt a crossover lead for pc to laptop direct connection wish me luck !
Hmmm.. just moved into my house (well i say my house the mortgage companies house) in feb.. got a few self crimped cables running about the place.. would love some sockets in the walls but its a messy job aint it.. cutting into the walls and all that?Originally Posted by TheAnimus
Good Luck **crosses fingaz**
depends dom, if you've yet to decorate a room, definatly give it a try, if you've got carpet its quite easy to take it up, get under the floorboards and make wholes that go behind the skirting board.
Often thou, you can avoid such complexity, my room in my perants house has laminate flooring. Pain in the arse for wiring. But it has some underdrawings next to it, very easy to drill a whole throu, put a box on it (next to a bit of co-ax for TV/sky), and then run some wires along the under drawings, up to the attic, over the otherside, through a whole in the lounge, in some truncing in the corner (you can't notice it) and straight down to where the router used to be.
In my student house, the electrics were been re-wired, so i put in two runs of cable to each room, and had them all meet under the stairs. I wired under the floor boards, and it looked very neet.
try running one room to a central location, thats easy to get at, ie your study/lounge.
As for crossover leads, often, their not needed, most new network devices have cable sensing, so don't need crossover cables.
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hi animus i tried using my xbox360's lead for laptop to pc cnnection didnt work
laptop / dell inspirion 6000 something and mobo has an nforce and marvel yukon adaptor?
hmm strange, i'd of thought the 6000 would of had it.
http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/abouthp/ipl.../automdix.html
HP ranting on about their patent of itBut Auto-MDIX also brings a few others its worth noting. PHY = physical layer, people who make the MAC chips, such as relteck and intel.
all you need is one Auto-MDIX complient device and it should work, what model is the yukon, you might just need to turn it on (in device manager property pages).
88E8050 has it for sure (strokes the box to his right).
apparently the dell has a broadcom 440x for its NIC, which
http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/q.../11755_na.HTML
leads me to belive should be auto-mdix.
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ah bugger it ive made a cross over and a patch and redone some other terminals with nice boots on the end as they were straggling wires coming out of some of them lol
but this is a good thread i will post up my finding with chopping and changing from wireless
Lets us know how ya get on.. havent really bothered benchmarking the current network.. dunno if there is any point.. seems to work fine enough..ah bugger it ive made a cross over and a patch and redone some other terminals with nice boots on the end as they were straggling wires coming out of some of them lol
but this is a good thread i will post up my finding with chopping and changing from wireless
well pluggin in the cable with wireless on seems to cause a bit of a hang for a few secs then i can transfer from main pc to laptop and back to it much faster than i ever could !
ya dancer i done somethin right
anyone know of etailers which sell bulk cat 6 connectors and boots for the cables?>
don't worry about cat6, cat5e is fine for gigabit enless you live in a mansion.
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i know but i got 900 meters for nowt of cat6 plus so not gonna complainjust need cat 6 connectoers preferab;y in bulk packs instead of singles i seem to find
your all clued up about wires and connectors so check out my next thread its not exactly networking but a kick in the arse of it .....tv coax and plug wireing aznd running along with the network cables....
i know but i got 900 meters for nowt of cat6 plus so not gonna complain
your all clued up about wires and connectors so check out my next thread its not exactly networking but a kick in the arse of it .....tv coax and plug wireing aznd running along with the network cables....
I think... thats the cat6 boots would be the same as the cat5 ones.. they all use the same connector right? (rj45)i know but i got 900 meters for nowt of cat6 plus so not gonna complain
your all clued up about wires and connectors so check out my next thread its not exactly networking but a kick in the arse of it .....tv coax and plug wireing aznd running along with the network cables....
Always better to get bulk pack i got about 50 or 100 for around a tenner.. from eBuyer
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