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in the past, to cascade switches you had to connect from the “cascade” port and have a button pushed, but now I need to connect my 4 port router to a switch to add more ports, do I use a patch cat5 or a crossover cat5?

i am having trouble with this. i am just wondering if i really need to buy their lan connector. where i live provides a T1 connection to the internet. i don’t want to go spend a lot of $ if it wont work any way.
i do not use a modem or router. i am wired direct from the plug in my wall to my computer. i would have to install a router to go wireless
Nintendo has discontinued their wifi usb connector. i know that the wii doesn’t have an Ethernet connection. i have an adapter to go from usb to cat5. i connected this but it isn’t reading that there is a internet connection. what does the lan connector do to make it work? or is it my internet connection?

i need to have a 100MB near my HiDefTV from my office/Computer room (which has FIOS 100Mb Ethernet).. i have two options either use Coaxial network or Telephone nework.. both Office / TV room have access to Coaxial/Telephone wiring. Tried 802.11 54G wireless, but bandwidth for home-network streaming not sufficient (not consistent).. thanks in advance for any advise.
i do have a CAT5 cable but only 2-wires used for a phone.. So my home is pretty much ethernet pass through ?.. How does this work.. withouth a switch.. can i connect multiple hosts ?.. another question.. can i continue to use my telephone line ?
BTW. thanks to everyone for great suggestons.. this is my first question on Yahoo answers..

I’ve got a small home network, and I want files and data to transfer faster on the wired half of it. It’s setup like this

1 Wireless Router with 4 wired ports
1 to a Windows 7 PC
1 to a Windows XP PC
1 to an Xbox 360
1 to a NAS Hard Drive

There are also 2 laptops, a Nintendo Wii, and a cell phone on the wireless portion of the network. 802.11g.

Allow me to be clear here. I WANT THE DATA TRANSFER THROUGH THE WIRED PORTION OF THE NETWORK TO BE FASTER. I mention the wireless aspect only so you know, in case it matters (I don’t think it does.)

I’m trying to hook my XBOX 360 Slim to an Ethernet cable for a more stable connection when playing online. Will a Category 6 Ethernet cable work with a Category 5 Cable Combiner/Splitter?
OK, forget the original question. Here’s a new one.

From start to finish, what EXACTLY do I need, besides an Ethernet cable, to connect my XBOX with an Ethernet cable? The guy at Radio Shack said I need a Fast Ethernet Switch by NETGEAR. Does it come with a cable to connect the switch to the computer? All I want is a straight-forward answer with minimal technical talk. And I’m possibly going to do this whole wired connection instead of wireless because I never have consistency in my online gaming.

I just installed Win98 on my old computer, I want to connect it to the Internet from my base computer running Vista. I had Linux installed before, where I’d just plug the Ethernet cable from one computer to the other, and I was running Internet on both. Since putting 98 I can’t get it too work, I’m sure it’s a setting in 98. Could someone help me out?
I’m trying to get Internet access on both Vista and 98 computers.
Nowhere really, I’ve tried to set-up a LAN connection,nothing; I think my Ethernet cable may not be recognized by 98. (It was on Linux)

Im trying to prove that the fiber converters will “Bottleneck” the bandwith if trying to convert from copper to fiber back to copper using converters only. And is it possible to get it to work right with just prchasing these components without a router or switch?
Jus to clear this up the ISP is on a CAT5 not at Fiber network so we would be going from a CAT5s to a fiber back to a CAT5 wouldnt the converter create alot of noise and disrupt the network?
CAT5 can olny push so much and we are not on a very high bandwith network, im thinking it will make the network worse on the other side with all the noise with the conversions, Wouldnt it be better to use a Wireless omini AP at the first point and second to bring the noise down?
Scharf,
I understand the network is run through fiber through different ISP’s that come through companies like Level 5. And I know that you can have a fiber network that transforms into CAT5 through switches (Did this whenI worked at CISCO Datacenters doing Layer I Engernerring). All I need is proof or someone to prove me wrong that you need more than a converter to have a fiber network in the buisness you work in. And that you need a ISP to provide you with a Fiber network and not just a basic cable network for small buisnesses to bridge the fiber from one point to the other. Here is the cloud: the network starts off from one building the CAT5 starts off from the wireless router goes to a converter that changes the copper to fiber, goes 300ft with fiber, goes beack to copper using another converter and to another building then spreads out in a smaller cloud for the workstations. Can this be done just using 2 Converters and a fiber cabel. Or is it better to go wireless 300ft
I used to build network clouds for a WISP once and thought it would be better to use a 15dpi network ap and jus shoot it 300ft (It can go 1.5mi). Than doing the fiber conversion.

I want to connect my Samsung BD-P2550 Blu-ray player to my internet connection to view Netflix movies. I need a 100ft. ethernet cable to connect my internet to my Blu-ray. Do I purchase a crossover or patch cable?
I had called Samsung and the lady told me to use a crossover. She didn’t sound very knowledgeable, that is why I am posting the question to the techies out there.
Thanks for the information. I verified with Netflix and BestBuy also. Patch cable! Thanks.

I have a desktop running off wireless in a house that I wanting to hard wire to the router. I want to run from the router to a jack, up the inside of the wall and across the attic. Then down the wall in the room across the house to another jack, which will run to the computer. My problem is even with a fishing tool I am attempting to trace down another wire previously ran to an electrical outlet. I keep hitting the fire-block in the wall. I would like to see if there is a tool or option that I can use to run this wire down the wall and install a jack without having to cut holes in the drywall except for the network jack itself. Any ideas?

I know how to make all the connections. I just would like to know from any construction/electrician experts if there is a good way to do this without poking holes in the drywall.
Thank you very much for your answers. Thanks for the Glow Rod Idea. I got me a kit enroute as we speak. Also the 6 foot bit got me searching, and I dug up the D’Versibit System. That is really nifty. Yall helped me out a ton.

I travel extensively and my laptop is set up to use the wired connector for connecting to the internet. I have to use the wired connector for security reasons, not because I don’t have one.

The problem is some of the newer hotels are using In-room wireless connectivity and don’t have the option of connecting through a RJ-45 connector.

Is there a device that will pick up the wireless signal and give me RJ-45 connector to hook a cable up to my laptop?
Our laptops are set up to only access through wired connections. We don’t have Admin rights, so adding any additional equipment to the laptops are out of the question.

I have decided to wire my house for ethernet, so that I have no trouble streaming 1080p video from a centralized server, which I would like to have in the basement. How would I go about getting the cables to the main floor and second floor, and then, from that point, to the necessary rooms?

I’ve been reading guides online, and some recommend a main floor coat closet with a conduit. This is doable, as behind the baseboard (I’m doing floors so these aren’t installed) there is a small open space to the boiler room in the basement. However, from this point, there are two problems. How do I run the cable to the two or three points I want on the main floor, and how do I go up through the ceiling to the second floor? Right above the coat closet is a hallway.

If I can find a way to get upstairs, maybe I can go all the way to the attic, and distribute upstairs that way. But the main floor is still a mystery to me.

Finally, do builders use any conduit for telephone/coaxial cable wiring? I have outlets for those in most rooms, I wonder if it would be possible to use that to my advantage.

Thanks so much.

I am working on wiring phone jack with a cat 5 cable. I connected the blue and green wires at the base. I tried to connect them to wires 3 & 4 on the RJ25 jack with out any success. Do they have to be certain order blue to 3 etc? Or where on the RJ25 connection pins do I connect?
Thanks. I used both blue and white for one line and the green for the second. I hooked the two green wires to the green and the two blue to the red at the phone base. I am going to try just one wire on each that might be my connection issue

I want to rewire home phone line. After researching for info, I decide to go with “Home run” method wiring or “Star topology”. 66 block 50-pair has many advantages that I do not need at this time. I just need a simple connection from wall jacks to network interface box. My questions are:
1. If I do not use the 66-block, I will make a contact points between the Red/Green terminals with corresponding wires running from individual wall jack. Is it the right connection? or do I need to use anything for contact points?
2. If I plug a phone set and dsl modem via a splitter into the testing modular jack (inside the network interface box; this will connect directly to the phone company), does it have any problems such as damage the phone or dsl modem or get a stastic noise?

I need an Ethernet cable to use to connect my Xbox 360 to the internet. What’s the exact name of the cable I need? I’ve seen patch cables, RJ45, 10BaseT cables, female, male, etc… I am going to buy a 100 foot cable. Thanks.
I need an Ethernet cable to use to connect my Xbox 360 to the internet. What’s the exact name of the cable I need? I’ve seen patch cables, RJ45, 10BaseT cables, female, male, etc… I am going to buy a 100 foot cable. Thanks.

EDIT: Are all of the cables Patch Cables?
I need an Ethernet cable to use to connect my Xbox 360 to the internet. What’s the exact name of the cable I need? I’ve seen patch cables, RJ45, 10BaseT cables, female, male, etc… I am going to buy a 100 foot cable. Thanks.

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I need an Ethernet cable to use to connect my Xbox 360 to the internet. What’s the exact name of the cable I need? I’ve seen patch cables, RJ45, 10BaseT cables, female, male, etc… I am going to buy a 100 foot cable. Thanks.

EDIT: Are all of the cables Patch Cables?
On Ebay I’m seeing around $15.

looking at this site

http://www.ertyu.org/steven_nikkel/ethernetcables.html

it says that blue and brown are unused, and the first pair is for transmit, and the second pair is used to receive. is this true?

so i could take one Ethernet wire and be able to wire 2 rj45 jacks?

like
white/orange orange white/green empty empty green empty empty

then for the second jack

white/blue blue white/brown empty empty brown empty empty

I have a small problem in my house. We have surround sound downstairs, with 2 wires going to each of the speakers, this makes 8 wires going all along the rail at the top of the room. Luckily the dado rail hides them but when they are going up the wall to the rail they look a mess. I was trying to find any type of 8-core speaker cable, and found this stuff doesn’t seem to exist (is it only me that has 5.1 Dolby Surround or something??). We also tried with wireless speakers, we have something in our house that severely interferes with any type of radio, my WiFi constantly disappears, when searching for wires in the wall all the walls are “live”, the only way we can get TV is through satellite, and likewise these speakers were just constantly buzzing and crackling.

I was then putting in some network cable and I came across a really good idea, I thought this cable has got 8 strands in it. I wonder if I could use this for wiring the speakers up. Does anyone know is this possible, and will it be safe, can network cable take about 100w of power without melting? I thought at first maybe using phone cable, but someone has advised against this as it would probably melt, network cable looks a lot more stronger though, is this the case and would it take 400w (100w per speaker)

my house is set up so that multiple rooms can have wired access to the internet .. my room was working and suddenly it stopped .. i looked at the router it was pulled into and the light will not turn on for the cord that is for my room.. i tried another cord and it STILL will not work any suggestions ?
pleaaase and thank you
my wireless is horrid because my room is so far away from it and i cant get any homework done !
i tried connecting it to two different ports on first my wireless router and then on another router still no luck tho

its in da gulf caat 5 right now:(

In case i reach 100 meters… can i put a SWITCH to the end of of so that i can have 100 meters more?