Straight-through and Crossover UTP in one hub. Will they bite?

[Elledan]

Or: Can you use both straight-pair and twisted-pair UTP cable with one hub?

I've tried this, but only the straight-pair cable gives me a connection.

Please help this network-newbie!

 

[spirites]

not sure what you mean...please explain more...

Are you trying to use both the uplink and the connected normal port on a hub/switch? If so it won't work; use one or the other for that port # (usually port 8 has 2 spots, 1 uplink and 1 normal...only can use one of the 2)

 

[Wizkid]

You can't use a cross-over cable to connect a hub to a computer (well you can, but the only port that allows this is the uplink port, and it's shared, so it's useless for this). Just buy straight (patch) cables and it will work fine.

 

[Elledan]

Hey, thanks Wizkid!

That's what I already feared... Luckily a new RJ-45 connector isn't that expensive

 

[Rakkis]

Before you go off to buy/make a new patch cable, you should be able to use the cross over through an uplink port with no problems.

Uplink + cross over cable == normal port + patch cable

Unless you're not already using the uplink that is

 

[Elledan]

Thanks for that tip, Rakkis!

I used the uplink port and it's working! Thanks a lot