Jon Tydda
jon at tydda.plus.com
Sun Nov 30 12:10:05 CST 2008
A switch actively directs traffic from the port it's coming from to the port it's looking for, where a hub is just a free for all. Hubs are a little bit slower because of all this traffic. Without a switch, if you're transferring lots of info over yur own network, you could DDOS yourself, and you wouldn't like that! ;-) Jon -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Rocky Smolin at Beach Access Software Sent: 30 November 2008 18:03 To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues' Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] [dba-OT] (no subject) Bill: Thanks for all the replies. What's the difference between a switch and a hub? Best, Rocky Smolin Beach Access Software 858-259-4334 www.e-z-mrp.com www.bchacc.com -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Bill Patten Sent: Sunday, November 30, 2008 9:17 AM To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] [dba-OT] (no subject) I bought this switch at Fry's for $45 a couple of months ago, here is one for $29 http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/searchtools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=2 201255 Bill ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rocky Smolin at Beach Access Software" <rockysmolin at bchacc.com> To: "'Off Topic'" <dba-ot at databaseadvisors.com> Cc: "List" <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com> Sent: Sunday, November 30, 2008 8:58 AM Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] [dba-OT] (no subject) OK I was a good boy, put a password on. So now I can connect to Vista box from another box. Then I discovered the Vista switch which requires users to enter a password to get on the Vista machine. Turned that off and now I'm no longer prompted for a password . Closer and closer. Now if I could just figure out what's wrong with that hub and get the last machine on the LAN. Which isn't too important. It's an old P3 which I put upstairs at Max's old workstation. When he comes back he'll have his laptop and wireless. So he'll be able to work. Still I'd like to get that last bit working. BTW, At the moment, the modem goes into the hub. Hub goes to router. Not sure why I have it that way but since it's working I'm reluctant to start switching things around. Rocky Smolin Beach Access Software 858-259-4334 www.e-z-mrp.com www.bchacc.com -----Original Message----- From: dba-ot-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-ot-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Rocky Smolin at Beach Access Software Sent: Sunday, November 30, 2008 8:47 AM To: 'Off Topic' Cc: List Subject: Re: [dba-OT] (no subject) Getting closer. The problem is now (I think) that I have only four ports on my router and I need 5. So one of the ports is connected to a hub. The hub seems to be the problem. It's working because the modem is connected to the hub. So I put Vista into the router and now everybody connected to the router can see Vista and Vista can see everybody. Some of them can't browse the others' drive but that's a permission problem which I can probably track down. However, when I click on Vista machine from another machine I get a dialog box asking for User name and password. When I did the restore to get a clean system I set up Rocky as a user account - I'm administrator - with no password. However, blank passwords are not allowed. Now what do I do? TIA Rocky Smolin Beach Access Software 858-259-4334 www.e-z-mrp.com www.bchacc.com -----Original Message----- From: dba-ot-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-ot-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of dickford1 at aol.com Sent: Sunday, November 30, 2008 8:25 AM To: dba-ot at databaseadvisors.com Subject: Re: [dba-OT] (no subject) Heh! One of the LAST places one tends to look, too...when there's an install issue. Gad! I remember well the days of the Centronics cables... Dickford -----Original Message----- From: Rocky Smolin at Beach Access Software <rockysmolin at bchacc.com> To: 'Off Topic' <dba-ot at databaseadvisors.com> Sent: Sun, 30 Nov 2008 10:46 am Subject: Re: [dba-OT] (no subject) BAD NETWORK CABLE !!!!! AAARRRRGGGHHHH!!! Rocky Smolin Beach Access Software 858-259-4334 www.e-z-mrp.com www.bchacc.com -----Original Message----- From: dba-ot-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-ot-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of DBCfour at aol.com Sent: Sunday, November 30, 2008 6:37 AM To: dba-ot at databaseadvisors.com Subject: Re: [dba-OT] (no subject) Make sure you don't have a max # of addresses that the router will hand out. Maybe it got on before the others, which would account for why it only made it on breifly. When you reset everything and everybody, maybe all the addresses were already used by the time the Vista machine tried to get it's address assigned. Donna In a message dated 11/30/2008 8:54:25 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, garykjos at gmail.com writes: I thought of one other thing to watch for.... When you bring up your browser, do the router or network switch lights blink at all to show activity? That was what showed me that I wasn't even getting out of the Vista box and to focus there. Good luck. My guess is it will be a small change to make it work. Kind of like finding the needle in the haystack though. I thought I was going to go through it again when I added a gigabit ethernet card to the Vista box - I don't name my boxes very well, it's called Duocore - and had to switch over from the onboard ethernet to the add in card one. Take small steps is all I can advise as I don't remember what exactly I did but it is working now. GK On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 1:26 AM, Rocky Smolin at Beach Access Software <rockysmolin at bchacc.com> wrote: > Dear Lists: > > I got a Vista machine from my father-in-law (compulsive hardware > buyer - he has about 12 machines and an equal number of printers - > gave me a color laser as well - he had 2 - wasn't using either. He's > 85. But I digress..). > I used the restore disk so it's a clean machine - just like out of > the box. > > The Vista machine can't see the network or the internet. I got it on > the intern et briefly by shutting down the modem and router and the > Vista machine > (per advice in diagnose and repair), but that hosed the network > connections for the other machines. So I shut everybody down, cycled > the modem and router. Now everybody is back except the Vista machine. > > I see that there's two type of networks - public and private. This > one is set to public. Don't know what that's all about. > > Diagnose and repair also has options to automatically get new IP setting, > and reset the network adapter. Neither worked. But the one time I was able > to find the dialog box with the IP address I see that it's not a > 192.168.1.xxx like the rest of the machines on the network. But I > cannot to > save me find that dialog box again. > > But I'm guessing that's the problem - not picking up a good network > address from the router. > > In the Local Area Connection Status it shows many packets send - zero > received. > > Now you'd think that Vista would be able to do this by itself. But > apparently not. > > BTW - I turned off the Windows Firewall just to eliminate that variable. > And no other AV or firewall software is running. > > What am I overlooking? Is there something simple that gets this > Vista box on my LAN and out to the internet? > > > > MTIA, **************Life should be easier. So should your homepage. Try the NEW AOL.com. 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