[WinMac] Ethernet troubles - off topic

Nick Scalise(nicks[at]radiks.net)
Tue, 09 Mar 1999 15:33:50 -0600

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I have been setting up a Mac network for a small town newspaper over the
last few weekends. The network consists of a mix of Apple 6100's, 7100's
8100's, G3's and 3 laser printers. All boxes are running OS 8.1 or 8.5. The
x100's have Farallon ethermac transceivers and all boxes are connected to a
Farallon Starlet 16 port hub using Belden brand Cat5 bulk solid core wire.

The problem we were running into is that when we got to plugging a machine
into the last port in the hub, the hub would only recognize 'stranded' cat5
cable (not solid core). It didn't matter which machine it was. If it was
going into port 15 it would only 'see' stranded cable. (Port 16 was not
available because the uplink port is in use.) Has anyone heard of this? The
cable run to the last port was not more than 30 feet. Most of the cables are
~50ft.

We got the whole thing running but I am curious as to why the trouble with
the solid core cat5. Is it that solid core sucks?

Any insight will be appreciated.

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