[lug] need cat5 wiring/"Dest host unreachable" help

[Michael J. Hammel]

Thus spoke John Karns
> I've encountered problems similar to what you describe when installing
> cat-5 cable due to excessive cable length.

After about three days of trying to track this down, I finally have it
working (well, almost).  Tests made it look like the cable lengths were too
long - it worked between my office and the breakout box in my bedroom
closet, but not if I tried to run from there to another room in the house.  

Well, the problem was the punch down box.  It was color coded to know which
wires to punch down on which wires.  But the color codes were wrong.  The
green and orange pairs were switch.  Agggghhhh!  Once I got that
straightened out, everything works fine.  I have a simple hub in the closet
that routes into the hub in my office.  So now the house is wired for for
computers in 4 different rooms (which is as many rooms that were prewired
with cable in the walls when the house was built).

Of course, the final goal still hasn't been achieved.  That's because I
know nothing about Windows (my daughter/wife's system) and trying to add a
network card that uses my Linux box as a gateway isn't a simple task.  I
tried to load the drivers and configure the network, but I have no way to
test it except using IE.  I found a ping routine but it isn't routing out
the card.  It makes it look like the driver isn't installed.  *sigh*  I
hate windows.  I'd replace the box with Linux but both ladies hate Netscape
cuz it doesn't handle Java apps properly.

Anyway, thanks for the tips on wiring.

-- 
Michael J. Hammel                               The Graphics Muse 
mjhammel at graphics-muse.org                      http://www.graphics-muse.com
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