St. Worm2
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Greetings: I just set a little peer to peer network up in this manner: Cable Modem > 4-port wireless router > 16 port workgroup switch out to all wired computers and devices. All are Linksys products (for whatever that is worth) and all are connected together with Cat 5 Ethernet cable.
At the moment there are 4 wired computers, 4 wireless computers, 3 print servers, and 2 wireless access points attached to this LAN. All work just fine until I add in the 16 port switch (which I obviously need to do) to the LAN, then the connectivity issues begin. If I just connect four devices and/or computers directly to the router ... ANY combination of 4 of the wired devices and/or computers in fact ... NO PROBLEM. They all work. But once I have them all connected to the 16 port switch, I get all kinds of problems, and this is the second, new Linksys-Cisco switch I've tried on this LAN.
Today, when the new switch arrived and I booted up the 1st Desktop, I was able to access everything like gangbusters, well, on computer #1 anyway. I then booted up computers 2 and 3 and found I was unable to access anything with either one of those computers, Intranet or Internet, but computer #1 was still working GREAT out of the same switch (and this is about how it was with the first switch I tried last week). But if I took the switch out of the mix again, all devices and computers would again work just fine plugged directly into the router's LAN ports. WEIRD!! Has anyone experienced anything like this before? If so, what did you do to fix the problem ..
Finally, and just FYI, this is how I tried to get everything up and running. First I turned off all computers and devices. I then connected everything together with Cat 5 Ethernet cable (as I said earlier). Then I booted up the Cable modem, then the router, then the switch, then the computers and devices, giving plenty of time between booting each device.
Have I done something wrong that you can think of? I'm using the "Uplink" port #16 in uplink mode on the 16 port switch, but should I use a Crossover cable instead of an Ethernet cable between the router and the switch nonetheless? ... remembering, of course, that one computer did work perfectly just the way I had it set up with regular Ethernet cable (also, that all Ethernet cables appear to be good since they all work when plugged directly into the back of the router rather than the 16 port switch).
One last thing, computer #2 seemed like it was going to connect each time, but it never would. And each time I tried, the same thing happened to the URL address in IE's "Address Line" and in the Finding page line on the bottom left-hand side of the IE window, both flashed rapidly. Again, weird, but I thought it might be worthwhile to mention it.
Any help would be greatly appreciated as I need to have this network up and working properly by Monday morning if possible ..
Thanks!
--David
At the moment there are 4 wired computers, 4 wireless computers, 3 print servers, and 2 wireless access points attached to this LAN. All work just fine until I add in the 16 port switch (which I obviously need to do) to the LAN, then the connectivity issues begin. If I just connect four devices and/or computers directly to the router ... ANY combination of 4 of the wired devices and/or computers in fact ... NO PROBLEM. They all work. But once I have them all connected to the 16 port switch, I get all kinds of problems, and this is the second, new Linksys-Cisco switch I've tried on this LAN.
Today, when the new switch arrived and I booted up the 1st Desktop, I was able to access everything like gangbusters, well, on computer #1 anyway. I then booted up computers 2 and 3 and found I was unable to access anything with either one of those computers, Intranet or Internet, but computer #1 was still working GREAT out of the same switch (and this is about how it was with the first switch I tried last week). But if I took the switch out of the mix again, all devices and computers would again work just fine plugged directly into the router's LAN ports. WEIRD!! Has anyone experienced anything like this before? If so, what did you do to fix the problem ..
Finally, and just FYI, this is how I tried to get everything up and running. First I turned off all computers and devices. I then connected everything together with Cat 5 Ethernet cable (as I said earlier). Then I booted up the Cable modem, then the router, then the switch, then the computers and devices, giving plenty of time between booting each device.
Have I done something wrong that you can think of? I'm using the "Uplink" port #16 in uplink mode on the 16 port switch, but should I use a Crossover cable instead of an Ethernet cable between the router and the switch nonetheless? ... remembering, of course, that one computer did work perfectly just the way I had it set up with regular Ethernet cable (also, that all Ethernet cables appear to be good since they all work when plugged directly into the back of the router rather than the 16 port switch).
One last thing, computer #2 seemed like it was going to connect each time, but it never would. And each time I tried, the same thing happened to the URL address in IE's "Address Line" and in the Finding page line on the bottom left-hand side of the IE window, both flashed rapidly. Again, weird, but I thought it might be worthwhile to mention it.
Any help would be greatly appreciated as I need to have this network up and working properly by Monday morning if possible ..
Thanks!
--David