Thread: cant get ethernet to work
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Old 21-01-2005, 14:41   #41
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Originally Posted by aidy048
well I feel a complete idiot, the cable I got from ntl was the wrong one, went to a friends house who had just had broadband fitted took one look at his cable and realised I had been plugging the wrong sort of cable in, got a cat 5 cable this morning, put it in, booted windows, switched zonealarm off, and hey presto it's working!, the cable I was using was like telephone wire with two ethernet connections? does ethernet run faster than usb because it seems a lot faster?
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thanks to everybody for your help
Right thats it,I been pulling my hair out with this one whats left of it,you owe me a pint LOL.

Glad its all sorted now,I find that ethernet is more stable and less power hungry so it will seem faster.
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