[rescue] Re: SS20 Network

[Phil Schilling]

s at avoidant.org wrote:
> 
> Thanks, Bill.
> 
> It was the cabling. The cable I made is fine (tested good with another
> machine) but for some reason this SS20 won't do anything without that
> connector I had been using to put two (straight-through, I think) Cat5
> cables together. I ended up using the long cable run I made WITH the
> connector and a two-foot straight-through at the switch end.
> 
> Now it's all happiness and light.
> 
> Odd thing, that. I wonder what that connector is, and why a regular
> straight-through cable doesn't work.
> 
> ---sambo
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Sambo,
	Do you have a continuity tester for cat 5 cabling?  The extender must be
rolling that cable into a crossover of some sort.  Don't remember the whole
thread but I know Bill mentioned putting a standard crossover cable in there,
did you try that?  One of those extenders caused my a little head scratching
not too long ago.  Had to move a wire in an office and when I reterminated the
end and hooked it up it tested  from patch to wall as crossover 1-3 2-6. 
Finally found someone had one of these extenders up in the ceiling between the
wall jack and the patch.  FWIW.

Phil
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