CAT6 and G4s
 

My company just moved to a new building and we upgraded to CAT6 cables, and every thing has been working well, except that we cant get the G4 to work with the CAT6 cable. Is it possible to connect to it, do we need a new card? I'm not sure exacly what needs to be done. Any info will help, thanks in advance.

SM Deluxe

The G4 and G5 lines will all handle Cat6 patch cable.

Maybe that cable is bad? Maybe the NIC is flaky?

What model G4? To the best of my recollection, all of the G4s had Gigabit enabled by default. Have you tested the patch cable and the route back to the switch?

The G4 is in a different office then mine, but my friend has a client right now. I'll be checking this out later. Thanks for the info, ill let ya'll know if this works or not. I'll find out what kinda G4 it is later also. Keep the suggestions commin' and thanks again.

SM Deluxe

Well we got it to work. He was changing his adresss. Im not to savy on this subject, but its the numbers that look like 10.10.10.(number here). he found one that worked, so he went through one by one, from 1 -18 or so, and wounded up with a 10.10.10.18 or something along those lines. Thanks for the suggestions.

Ideally he shouldn't have to do that. I don't know how Macs work specifically, but in all the windows networking I've done.. the router should be assigning that IP automatically. DCHP (a function of most routers) automatically assigns IP addresses (xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx) as computers join in under the shared connection of the router. I don't know of Gigabit/CAT6 should change this.. but he shouldn't be manually changing his IP address. If anything changes within the network, he could lose connectivity again...