for the technical peeps out there:

[-ag-bometal]

Hehe, posted here because you can wait for ages in the technical forum on a response:

I got a broadband router atm from eminent ( ) with 4 LAN ports and one Wan port. All my 4 pc's are connected and we are happenly connected to the net.

Until one day a 5th computer arrived...

I picked up an old hub from under the dust (an Accton 5 port) and using my IT knowledge i tryed to couple the hub with the router so more then 4 pc's can connect to the net...

Unfortunaly it doesn't really work atm...

Please help me

Thanks in advance

 

[-Nxs-]

Because your router had a built in hub - and you will be chaining another hub off it, look for the UPLINK port on your 2nd hub. or use a cross over cable to link the hub to the router.

Something like that anyway i remember the 3com hubs would have a button to push to say whether port 1 (or port 8 on others) would be used for daisy chaining.

 

[-ag-bometal]

Hmmmm more details please

as far as i could remember i must put a cross cable in the hub MDI Port and connect that to the router uplink port ?

But that doesnt really seems to work :/

 

[-Nxs-]

If you have a propper MDI port - then dont use a cross over cable.

The Hub i have here at work, has MDI and MDI-X sockets so i guess one is for a cross over cable.

There so much variety in hubs now, I'd just take a line from the router - and plug it into the MDI socket on your new hub (use a normal CAT5 cable not xover) see if you get a link light on your new hub, if not try a xover cable.

Once you have that link light, then start putting other devices into the free sockets on your new hub.

 

[heilel]

I'd need the model name/number of the router and hub to help you.

 

[-ag-bometal]

The router : Eminent Broadband router EM4012

The hub: Accton model unknow, hub has 6 ports : 4 Regular LAN ports, 1 MDI-X and one MDI

Thanks in advance

 

[hercules-df]

plug all the pcs into the hub if room, then hub-router no worrys
or get an axe

 

[Roo Stercogburn]

At home I use the a hub plugged into a firewall/router with network devices in both and it works a treat.

Pretty well explained above though so I don't really have a whole lot to add except maybe the uplink port is usually fairly clearly marked on most hubs. Its always the first or last port in the row depending on the manufacturer

 

[klavrynd]

MDI/MDIX is a type of Ethernet port connection using twisted pair cabling. The MDI (for medium dependent interface) is the component of the media attachment unit (MAU) that provides the physical and electrical connection to the cabling medium. An MDIX (for MDI crossover) is a version of MDI that enables connection between like devices. MDI ports connect to MDIX ports via straight-through twisted pair cabling; both MDI-to-MDI and MDIX-to-MDIX connections use crossover twisted pair cabling.


You can connect multiple hubs/switches together using the following methods:

1) Connect a standard Category 5 UTP cable between a standard port on one hub/switch and an uplink port on a second hub/switch. The mdi-x slot is a normal port, the mdi-i one takes care of uplink

2) Connect a special Category 5 UTP cross-over cable between standard ports on both hubs/switch.