already have a straight-through cable ran down can I just crossover

[casnj]

ok I already ran a straight cat5 cable downstairs. I want to put a hub now downstairs also. Can I just make a short cross over and plug it into the router and hub downstair and get this going?

Thanks

 

[fergiboy]

You have to explain more.

 

[cavingjan]

Does your hub or router already have an uplink port that would preclude the need for a crossover cable? If not, getting a short crossover cable and a cat5 coupler would work. Not sure how much of a degredation you are goign to have but it should work.

 

[Wolfie]

cavingjan is somewhat right.
What I gather you are tring to get a computer running to a hub... to another hub... and then to another computer. Em I guessing right?

If one of the hubs has a uplink port it is not nessisary to have a xover cable. But if neither one of the hubs have a uplink port, you must use a Xover cable between the two hubs.
Otherwise the "switching" that the hub does internaly will be wrong when it gets to the other computer.

Good Luck

Wolfie