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As soon as I got a board with Gigabit I bought new, good quality CAT5E
cables because I too discovered the old ones weren't as as good as I
thought. Much better connection now.
"Paul" <nospam@needed.com> wrote in message
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> In article <1XqYd.7056$N15.1927@okepread06>, "Thomas" <tgs@cox.net> wrote:
>
>> Don't know if this is the place for this question But I have a A8v
>> Deluxe
>> MB and loaded win xp pro one the hardrive .But I can not get on the net
>> with my network connections It tell me no or limited connection and I
>> tried connection to modem with Ethernet card and usb and get same thing
>> will not receive any packets.
>> Does anyone know how to solve this
>> Thanks
>> Thomas
>
> Set up the Marvell Virtual Cable tester. I was surprised to
> find on my GbE interface, that my Ethernet cable was bad.
> Repeated insertion and removal of the cable, into the RJ45
> connector, cleaned the gunk off the Asus connector pins.
>
> The beauty of GbE chips, is they use all four pairs on the
> Ethernet cable. GbE chips also support MDI/MDIX. What that
> means, is you can connect from your computer, to a WAN or
> LAN port on another device, and the GbE PHY on your computer
> is smart enough to pick the right two pairs from a 10/100BT
> interface by itself. In the old days, you might need a
> null modem (rolled) ethernet cable to make such a connection.
> GbE chips are truly flexible that way. It also means you
> can connect a GbE computer to a 10/100BT computer, using
> an ordinary Ethernet cable.
>
> Give the VCT a try, and see if it reports the right number
> of wire pairs are operational. Four pairs are needed for
> a connection to a gigabit device. Two pairs are needed for
> 10/100BT.
>
> HTH,
> Paul