which twisted pair cabling standard should be used when going between 2 switches? Straight-thru or crossover?
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Technically it has to be crossover BUT...\n\nNewer switches can auto sense the type of cable and electronically switch the port to crossover instead of you having to use one so a straight-through will most likely work. With an older switch there should be an uplink port with a switch to change that port from normal to crossover.
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An 11Mbps Ethernet bridge is enough.  That is quite fast :).
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That depends on what you mean by network cable.  Your standard Cat 5 & Cat 6 type twisted pair ethernet cable cannot go that far, only about 330 ft before you would need a switch to extend farther.  To do it in one shot 2000 feet long, without sacrificing bandwidth, you would probably want to go with fiber optic.  There are also some decent wireless solutions that can get you around 27 Mbits and can reach up to 10 miles line of sight.
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What is your budget?\n\nI generally setup networks with a Cisco PIX and then have a separate switch for each subnet.  \n\nIf you need something a bit more affordable, check out the Linksys RV042 and make sure it has the latest firmware.
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A proper switch is nothing more then a switching hub, or intelligent hub.  It acts as a logical bridge, but allows a physical and logical start topology.\n\nAs previously indicated a switching hub, can learn where devices are located and send packets accordingly.\n\nYes, you can connect switches and hubs together, although it would benefit you to use switching hubs, preferably from the same vendor.  Some intelligent hubs can communicate and manage resources better within a segment.\n\nFor your project, you may need a switching hub on each floor but not necessarily.  If the distance is not too great for the specific ethernet you select, a "collapsed" network (single star) configuration is much more cost effective.  With the collapsed design you will have to have more and longer "home runs" or cable runs to the ports from the switch, but each port will get full bandwidth.\n\nIf you place a switch on each floor the maximum speed you can achieve is whatever the shared bandwidth is available between the switches, between each floor.  So if you connect two floors with a switch on each floor, and the servers are on one floor and workstations on the other, using a 1Gbps connection between switches - your workstations all share the 1Gbps connection to the server, no matter they have 100Mbps to the switch on their floor - the workstation switch cannot talk faster then 10 X 100Mbps or 1Gbps to the other switch where the servers are.\n\nMost large switches that can manage hundreds of ports have 10, 20 or even 100Gbps communications on the backplane (within the switch itself), providing full 100Mbps communication from each workstation to each server.
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The router and modem typically connect using a standard Ethernet twisted pair patch cable, which has 8 conductors and RJ-45 connectors on each end, but only 4 conductors are used, on pins 1,2,3 and 6, as there are two conductors for the transmit pair and 2 for the receive pair.
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Configure the network adapters on both the PCs in Half Duplex mode and verify if this resolves the issue. This can be done as follows: -\nStep 1: Go to Start> Control Panel > and select Network connections.\n\nStep 2: Right click on your network card (for 2000 and XP only)and select Properties.\n\nStep 3: Select the Configure button.\n\nStep 4: Under the Advanced tab you will see two boxes; Property and Value. \n\nNote: Depending on the type of Ethernet card you are using the headings in the Property box will be slightly different.\n\nStep 5: Select each heading in the Properties box until the Value box displays the speed of your Ethernet card (it will look like this: Auto-Negotiation, 10Mb Full, 100 MB Half, etc..). You want to select 10mb Full Duplex.\n\nStep 6: Keep clicking OK until you get to the desktop. Your computer may ask you to reboot depending on the version of Windows you are running.
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100BaseTX is the most common in use today\n\n100BaseT4 is obosolete as it used 4 pairs in the cable so the industry gravitated to the tx as it used only 2 pairs
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In short yes.  I would not run them interchangeably.  They make frequency converters that you can place in-between those segments.  I saw one by Winncom a while back that was compatible with both ver. of coax
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You need a router like a cisco 7200\n\nAnd switches that accept fiber like the cisco 3550\n\nLoop the 3550's to keep your performance\n\nThe fiber will run from each 3550 that will pass along your LAN information, each 3550 has 48 copper RJ45 ports on them for your cat5 network.\n\nGranted this is a simplistic run down it gives you a baseline to work with.\n\nYou will need precise length for your fiber runs as those cables usually are professionally installed.\n\nGranted this is a simplistic overview, it gives you a run down on what it will look like.
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A crossover cable is an ethernet cable.  You have two variations of an ethernet cable (using the TIA 568B configuration, which is industry standard), straight and cross.  Straight would have White-Orange, Orange, White-Green, Blue, White-Blue, Green, White-Brown, Brown in that order from pin 1 to 8 (optionally, they use only four wires which would be the orange and green colors, in the same order on the same pins).  A crossed cable would be the same order as above on one side, and White-Green, Green, White-Orange, Blue, White-Blue, Orange, White-Brown, and Brown on the other end.\nStraight cables are usually used for connection of a PC or Printer to a switch.  Crossovers are usually used to connect one device to another.
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The most obvious difference is their transfer capability. CAT5 has four pairs of twisted copper wire and supports up to 100m of Fast Ethernet (100Mbps) transfers. Although CAT5 has four twisted pairs, it only makes use of two pairs. CAT6 also has four pairs of twisted copper wire which supports Gigabit Ethernet (1000 Mbps) of up to 100m. Unlike CAT5, CAT6 takes advantage of all four pairs. CAT6 has a 2x transfer rate compared to CAT5 but due to the higher price tag of CAT6, it isn't used alot yet.
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RJ-45\n\ndon't foget, the 2 wire pairs need to be hooked up in a unique way. Pin 1 & 2 / 3 & 6 need to matched. The others really don't matter.
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It can be done, but you usually use a switch not a router for the second one.  You need a crossover cable to do it.  A regular RJ-45 does not do.\n\nThey look the same, but a cross over switches the wires.  A switch usually has a port that does that for you, routers do not.\n\n-Dio
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When you use an Ethernet cable to connect your computer to a hub, switch or router, you use what's called an MDI (straight through) cable.\n\nIn order to connect one computer to another directly, you must use an Ehternet cable with a different pinout called an MDI-X (cross over) cable.\n\nThe reason for this is because your computer is a "terminal" device.  It transmits data on a specific wire and expects to receive data on a specific other wire.  Then you connect it to a "host" device and it expects same thing, but on the opposite wires.\n\nFor more information, see the article on Ehternet on howstuffworks.com\n\nhttp://computer.howstuffworks.com/ethernet.htm
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just go to the nearest computer store or Radio Shack and ask for crossover cable to connect to computers together, Thay'll know what you talkin about. You don't need to spend alot for a brand-name like Belkin. Also, it's are pretty easy to make it yourself.
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The uplink plug is for connecting another switch to that switch.\n\nNormally you need a crossover cable to connect a switch to another switch. But, if one has an uplink, you can connect the two together without needing a crossover cable.