Gary Kjos
garykjos at gmail.com
Tue Dec 29 11:24:44 CST 2009
I have essentially the same thing going on. "Recenttly" (3 years ago) I swapped out the hub for a switch to take advantage of gigabyte boards in some of my systems. On my router only port 1 is setup to have a hub or switch set up on it. You might check your router documentation. That cable then goes into the UPLOAD port on the switch or hub. All ports may not be equal when it comes to connecting additional hubs and or switches. GK On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 10:27 AM, Rocky Smolin <rockysmolin at bchacc.com> wrote: > Dear List: > > I have a nice netgerar router with wireless and four ports. Problem is that > I need five ports. I had an old hub in the cabinet so I connected one of > the router's ports to the hub. One of the ports on the hub goes to a > Netgear XE102 wall plugged bridge which gives another computer and the HDTV > access to the network and the net through two other XE102s. Everything > works a treat. > > But when I try to connect another machine (via regular Cat-5/RJ45 cable) to > an empty port on the hub, the computer can see the network but not the > internet - windows diagnosis shows the computer is connected to > 'unidentified network', 'local access only', and says that the IP address is > invalid - which it is - looks like some kind of fixed IP instead of the > 192.168.1.n number assigned by the router (?). > > Oddly, the Netgear bridge doesn't have a problem - don't know why. And years > ago I was using this hub to connect machines. So I think the hub is good > (the Netgear Bridge works in all the hub's ports) and the cables are good - > I tested them by using the router's ports - and it worked. > > Anybody know why these ports won't work? Is there a way to use the empty > ports on the hub? Should I get a switch? > > > > MTIA > > > > Rocky > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > dba-Tech mailing list > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > > -- Gary Kjos garykjos at gmail.com