Ive made a cable but the computer it is connected to can access the network, what is wrong?
A. – Check that the light on the hub is lit or not. If it isn’t lit that would signify that your cable is faulty. You may need to cut the RJ45’s off and try again, taking great care not to damage the wires inside and ensuring the colours are in the right order. If the light is lit then try opening a command/DOS prompt and using the ‘ping’ command – type ‘ping 192.168.0.xxx’ where xxx is one of the other computers on your network (to find network addresses type the command ‘ipconfig’ on Windows 2000/XP or use winipcfg on 98/ME). If the ping command succeeds then you likely have something wrong in your Windows configuration – check IP addresses and workgroup names, reboot all the computers starting with the DHCP server), if you get a lot of ‘host unreachable’ errors then it suggests a hardware issue of some kind, usually a faulty cable but check your network card settings to see if any errors are reported. One common networking hurdle to overcome in Windows XP is the built in firewall, t
