dont talk to me about telescum installers (sorry mark :) you dont count) i
had nightmares with mine who left my box offline all day, all he had to do
was plug tha damn power lead in (after 4 days waiting for my dsl)

bah - i'm drunk and goin to bed !

--
Steve.
On Tue, 7 Mar 2000, Robert Purdy wrote:
> Blue cable? cable? I didn't get a cable, the guy used one of mine!
> 
> Whats with these Telecom installers?
> 
> Rob
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-adsl@ns.freebsddiary.cx
> [mailto:owner-adsl@ns.freebsddiary.cx]On Behalf Of rob.edkins@axon.co.nz
> Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2000 7:49 PM
> To: paulr@mcgovern.co.nz; adsl@freebsddiary.cx
> Subject: RE: ADSL install
> 
> 
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Paul Reynolds [mailto:paulr@mcgovern.co.nz]
> > Sent: Monday, 6 March 2000 10:32
> > To: adsl@freebsddiary.cx
> > Subject: RE: ADSL install
> >
> >
> > At the risk of stating the obvious to some - but in the
> > interest of helping others , when I set up the Nokia to run a
> > common Internet gateway on our small peer to peer LAN ( five
> > machines )  - it didnt; work !
> > The solution however couldnt have been simpler - throw away
> > the blue cable that came with the Nokia , and replace the
> > (cable) connection from the M10 to the Hub ( as shown in the
> > wee graph) with an ordinary network cable ..
> > The result - bingo !
> >
> >
> Yep, the supplied blue cable is a crossover...eg the transmit and receive
> pairs are crossed (pin 1-3, 2-6, 3-1, 6-2), or MDI/X in hub speak.
> 
> This is correct for use between two MDI devices, (2 computers, or router and
> PC).
> 
> Since hub ports are already MDI/X, you've just re-crossed it!
> 
> Some hubs have a link port designed for interlinking hubs with a standard
> cable, which is switchable between MDI and MDI/X.
> 
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