Vista Business and thin (coax) ethernet

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We have a small network cat5 linked with a small segment running along coax
thin ethernet (for distnace reasons) at the end of this is a machine running
XP quite happily. We have just replaced a machine in the middle of this
segment with a new one running Vista Business. As we couldn't find any Vista
drivers for the Linksys II dual coax, RJ45 card we had, we are using a bulk
standard 10/100 card, with an old D-link media converter to convert the
'coax' ethernet to 'cat5'. If we plug an XP machine onto this we get full
communication, if we put the new machine with Vista we get 'network cable
unplugged' if we take the Vista machine to the hub and plug it directly into
the hub, we get networking. I tried disabling TCP v6 and just leaviing 4 to
no avail. Any suggestions....Help :-))
 
Some cards can do an automatic cross-over as necessary, some don't. Possibly
your bulk 10/100 card cannot do autosense while the one in the XP machine
can. Connecting with a crossover cable might be worth a try.

Michael
 
We have a small network cat5 linked with a small segment running along coax
thin ethernet (for distnace reasons) at the end of this is a machine running
XP quite happily. We have just replaced a machine in the middle of this
segment with a new one running Vista Business. As we couldn't find any Vista
drivers for the Linksys II dual coax, RJ45 card we had, we are using a bulk
standard 10/100 card, with an old D-link media converter to convert the
'coax' ethernet to 'cat5'. If we plug an XP machine onto this we get full
communication, if we put the new machine with Vista we get 'network cable
unplugged' if we take the Vista machine to the hub and plug it directly into
the hub, we get networking. I tried disabling TCP v6 and just leaviing 4 to
no avail. Any suggestions....Help :-))
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You are using an AUI port?
The RG59 connector (thin coax) is called 10base2. (200 Meters).
Use a "repeater" (Ethernet extender) at the CAT5e 100M point and you
should be able to bump up your speed to 100MBPS.
 
Hi Michael

Thank you so much for your response, you were spot on!! Put in a crossover
cable and instant network!

Thank you so much!

Traveller_agr
 
Hi Steve

Thank you for the reply. In an ideal world we would have put cat5e cable in,
but we had to bury a cable of 150 meters under a lawn flower bed and church
car park, with no facilities to power a repeater hald way along. Hence the
thin ethernet. We have more recently considered an wifi bridge, but can't get
anywhere near a line of site and as this carries church stuff, people become
very sensitive if they think that others might be able to hack into a wider
broadcast wifi signal. So it looks like we'll have to put up with 10 mips for
the moment. As you may have seen, Michale suggested we try a crossover cable,
which has sorted it, and we are back onliine.

Thanks again.

Traveller_agr
 
Glad to have been of help.

Michael

Traveller_agr said:
Hi Michael

Thank you so much for your response, you were spot on!! Put in a crossover
cable and instant network!

Thank you so much!

Traveller_agr
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Hi Steve

Thank you for the reply. In an ideal world we would have put cat5e cable in,
but we had to bury a cable of 150 meters under a lawn flower bed and church
car park, with no facilities to power a repeater hald way along. Hence the
thin ethernet. We have more recently considered an wifi bridge, but can't get
anywhere near a line of site and as this carries church stuff, people become
very sensitive if they think that others might be able to hack into a wider
broadcast wifi signal. So it looks like we'll have to put up with 10 mips for
the moment. As you may have seen, Michale suggested we try a crossover cable,
which has sorted it, and we are back onliine.

Thanks again.

Traveller_agr
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Car Park and Lawn, Yikes.
Talk about Squash and soak.

OPTICAL (fibre) in thick duct and or deep should make all happy about
security.

WiFi set MAC access in both units to ONLY each other and use the
strongest encryption. Use a Yagi antenna with the WiFi unit in outdoor
enclosures . Put one unit in the Bell tower (you have a Bell tower?)
looking down. Use POE (if about 30 M from the "power injector" to
power the A/P.

Glad you got it sorted out.

Steve
 
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