Networking DSL/Cabling Issues

[Matthew Freeland]

The cable connecting the modem to the router must be a crossover cable.  This 
is the cable that was originally connecting your modem directly to your 
computer.  Then, you can use standard CAT5 cable to connect your computers to 
the router.  Don't worry about the 10baseT, any CAT5 cable will work... It 
can connect at 10mbps or 100mbps.

Your problem is that you're using the patch cable that was intended to connect 
a pc to the router, which means it is a standard CAT5 cable, rather than a 
crossover CAT5 cable.

On Thursday 03 July 2003 11:52 am, Adam Davis wrote:
> G'morning all.
>
> I'm trying to set up a home network so that several computers can share a
> DSL line.
>
> The setup is such: DSL modem is on the second floor and the router must
> also be there.  Computers are on the first floor and in the basement.
> Each computer currently has cable running to it from the 2nd floor.
>
> Included with the router was a short bit of patch cable.  The instructions
> specifically say to use the patch cable to connect the router to the
> computer, and use the cable currently hooked into the DSL modem to connect
> the modem and router.
>
> Using that setup requires me to put the router right next to one of the
> two computers and it works.  The problem is that the router needs to be
> with the cable modem on the second floor, so I can connect both
> computers to it.
>
> But when attempting to do this, I have to use the patch cable to connect
> the modem and the router (and leave the line that runs from 2nd floor to
> 1st floor connecting the router and the computer).  With this setup,
> nothing nothing happens.  The computer doesn't even recognize the router.
>
> The DSL modem needs a 10BASE-T connection, but I'm not precisely sure what
> that means.  Do I need to get a different type of networking cable?  Is
> there somethinge else I'm completely missing?
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> ~Adam Davis
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