Thread: Cabling Problems
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Old 21-11-2005, 11:12   #4
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Re: Cabling Problems
When it gets the 169 address can you log onto the router to see that the DHCP server has given an address to the laptop.

Does ipConfig give what you expect back?

Sounds like a cable is damaged in the run, this does not necessarily mean a repull as CAT5 only uses 4 of the 8 cores, can you circuit test all of the wires to see if any are broken?

As long as the pairs are kept paired they can be in any order as long as they are in the same order at both ends, so if you find a the blue pair damaged, you could swap the brown and blue pairs to get a good connection from the cable.

What are the ping results if you ping your router? Are you losing lots of packets?
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