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Rebuilding Network

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Tannah

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Ok heres the deal I'm looking at rewiring most of my network, I'm currently running a BNC network..
the problem is somone just got a laptop and wants to plug it into the network in order to use the internet and tranfer files onto it..
the laptop has a 10/100 rj45 network card built into it, my first though was just to pick up a 5 port hub with a BNC connector on it as I though this would be cheap, low and behold I find the dam thing costs $110 bucks,
so I while looking though the paper I see a local eletronics store has 5-port SMC 10/100 hubs for sale at a price of $57 bucks, I start figureing it out and find that I would need 2 hubs and about 100 feet of RJ45 (to be used as connetor cables not as one peice)
I'm kinda up in the air on which way to go, but what I want to know is there a specific type of rj45 that you need to acheave 100 base t?

thanks for any productive input anyone can provide

 
As long as your jacks, wire, etc. are all rated Cat5 (which almost all of the stuff you can buy now is), it will support 100.

I would say go with the twisted pair and rj45s all around. There really is no advantage to staying with coax if you are going to have to spend the money for the hub any way.

Figure the price of new network cards for the old computers, cables, etc when looking at the total price. You might also wat to look at one larger hub instead of two small ones. That way your connections are form computer to hub and you don't have to worry about the uplink.

Are all of the computers in the same room, or are you going to be wiring through walls? That would also be something to consider. If there is now wiring to be put through the walls, it would be cake to make the change.

Just my opinions..
 
well actually the set up is 3 computer including my BSD gateway in 1 room the the Coax/BNC goes though the floor and about 10 feet to were it connects to another computer then another 8 feet though a wall and to a another machine then anouther 15 feet were it hooks into an old bnc/rj45 hub, and the hub hooks up 4 computers right now..

What I was figureing on doing was getting a 5 port hub for the upstairs computer tearing out the BNC and hooking up the 3 incluging the new laptop there, using the last port to run a cable to inbetween the first two computers 1 floor down were the second hub would be hooking up the 2 computers then using a port on that hub to go over to the existing hub that hooks up 4 computers.
I've done basic networking with RJ45 before but I've never went past anything that used more than 1 hub..

Any Advice would be appreciated
 
ok new question how do you find out if a hub can link/connect to another hub?
I have a DE-809TC hub and I'm looking at linking it with 1 or 2 SMC5605DS hubs
anyone know if this is possable?
 
Most hubs should have an uplink port (it shares with port 1). If you are connecting hub to hub via uplink, then I believe you need a CAT5 PATCH cable (correct me if I'm wrong guys, I'm not too sure). If you are connecting from a hub to, say a computer or a router, then you would need a CAT5 CROSSOVER cable. I would go with IJump's suggestion and getting a hub with more ports. It's a lot easier to wire, because you don't have to deal with uplink ports and the risk of not being able to communicate with the other computeres. Good luck on your network 🙂
 


<< Most hubs should have an uplink port (it shares with port 1). If you are connecting hub to hub via uplink, then I believe you need a CAT5 PATCH cable (correct me if I'm wrong guys, I'm not too sure). If you are connecting from a hub to, say a computer or a router, then you would need a CAT5 CROSSOVER cable. I would go with IJump's suggestion and getting a hub with more ports. It's a lot easier to wire, because you don't have to deal with uplink ports and the risk of not being able to communicate with the other computeres. Good luck on your network 🙂 >>



Only use a crossover cable to connect two switches or hubs together if they do not have a uplink. Use a patch cable to plug the computers into the hub/switch
 
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