On Dec 12, 2007 2:38 PM, Karl Larsen <k5di@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: [snip] > What I can't understand is your saying the special cat 5 cable did > work for some faster Internet. You are the first person in this thread to mention the Internet at all. > It should never work period. The normal > cat 5 cable works with all the computers, switches and routers here in > USA. Define a "normal cat 5 cable". There are many was of wiring the plugs on the end of a cable and different applications may require different wiring. The specific example of this thread is that there is a difference between a straight wired cable and a cross over cable. Feel free to check Wikipedia and/or Google for the differences if they were not explained well enough here for you. > The non-working laptop my well just be that your bringing the > Internet to it with a wrong cable. Again, you are the only one talking about the Internet in this thread. -- William Hooper
