soccerchamp76

In an attempt to hardwire my basement to our router on the first floor (instead of spotty wireless), I purchased a 100ft. crossover cable from Newegg.com and ran the wire from the router down to the basement. Now, when the cable is connected to the router and then to my laptop, the light goes on signaling connection and the LAN symbol states that it is connected at 100.0Mbps.

However, the internet does not work, just that it is connected to the router. Could this be because I used a crossover cable to connect the laptop to the router? Would a straight-laced cable work in this case, therefore?

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catback

Patch cable is what is supposed to be used but depending on the router crossover cable may be useable.

bendsley

A crossover cable is to go from something like computer to computer, or switch to switch (not using an uplink port).

From one of of the switchports to your computer, you just need a straight through cable.

Also, refer to my post at http://www.tfproject.org/tfp/showpos...87&postcount=5

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MikeSty

What catback and bendsley saids. Bendsley is a smart dude considering he does drywall

I got some l33t experience with net cabling recently. I got to make my own cat5e I made a couple of crossover and straight-through cables.

http://www.lanshack.com/make-cat5E.asp

Best - tutorial - ever

It's a pain in the ass at first, but my teacher who's been doing it for years can do it in like five minutes. Oh, and MAKE SURE you check the wires BEFORE you crimp, and TEST THE WIRES BEFORE you hook it to a PC

cyrnel

Soccer, do you mean you see link for the connection between routers? If so then the cable is okay. One end probably has 802.3 MDI/MDIX auto-crossover and you can use either cable. I'd continue checking your router and pc's net configuration. If this is the first time you've set up multiple levels of routers then you could have a simple addressing issue. Let us know more of the configuration.

If you don't see link between routers then... uh...nevermind.

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soccerchamp76

Yeah, it was a configuration issue, the IP address was set to manual so I had to set it for autoconfigure.
Thanks all for the help though.

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Brian Griffin: Ah, if my memory serves me, this is the physics department.
Chris Griffin: That would explain all the gravity.