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Originally Posted by shadowseeker
the switch is a maplin cheep one...its got no real name to it but it is a auto sensing 10/100 Mbps, it has 8 10/100 rj45 sockets with full and half duplex and on ports and uplink compatibility on every socket
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The bit in red is the crucial bit, means that it doesn;t need a crossover cable and will not have a switch to uplink/downlink..
Try another cable that you know is definately working, if not then there's a hardware fault somewhere