Vista Business and thin (coax) ethernet

> Some cards can do an automatic cross-over as necessary, some don't. Possibly
> your bulk 10/100 card cannot do autosense while the one in the XP machine
> can. Connecting with a crossover cable might be worth a try.
>
> Michael
>
> "Traveller_agr" <Traveller_agr@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:410A4179-FD87-4991-9BFA-463F445B322C@microsoft.com...

> > We have a small network cat5 linked with a small segment running along
> > coax
> > thin ethernet (for distnace reasons) at the end of this is a machine
> > running
> > XP quite happily. We have just replaced a machine in the middle of this
> > segment with a new one running Vista Business. As we couldn't find any
> > Vista
> > drivers for the Linksys II dual coax, RJ45 card we had, we are using a
> > bulk
> > standard 10/100 card, with an old D-link media converter to convert the
> > 'coax' ethernet to 'cat5'. If we plug an XP machine onto this we get full
> > communication, if we put the new machine with Vista we get 'network cable
> > unplugged' if we take the Vista machine to the hub and plug it directly
> > into
> > the hub, we get networking. I tried disabling TCP v6 and just leaviing 4
> > to
> > no avail. Any suggestions....Help :-))
> >

>
>

> Hi Michael
>
> Thank you so much for your response, you were spot on!! Put in a crossover
> cable and instant network!
>
> Thank you so much!
>
> Traveller_agr
>
> "Michael" wrote:
>

>> Some cards can do an automatic cross-over as necessary, some don't.
>> Possibly
>> your bulk 10/100 card cannot do autosense while the one in the XP machine
>> can. Connecting with a crossover cable might be worth a try.
>>
>> Michael
>>
>> "Traveller_agr" <Traveller_agr@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
>> message
>> news:410A4179-FD87-4991-9BFA-463F445B322C@microsoft.com...

>> > We have a small network cat5 linked with a small segment running along
>> > coax
>> > thin ethernet (for distnace reasons) at the end of this is a machine
>> > running
>> > XP quite happily. We have just replaced a machine in the middle of this
>> > segment with a new one running Vista Business. As we couldn't find any
>> > Vista
>> > drivers for the Linksys II dual coax, RJ45 card we had, we are using a
>> > bulk
>> > standard 10/100 card, with an old D-link media converter to convert the
>> > 'coax' ethernet to 'cat5'. If we plug an XP machine onto this we get
>> > full
>> > communication, if we put the new machine with Vista we get 'network
>> > cable
>> > unplugged' if we take the Vista machine to the hub and plug it directly
>> > into
>> > the hub, we get networking. I tried disabling TCP v6 and just leaviing
>> > 4
>> > to
>> > no avail. Any suggestions....Help :-))
>> >

>>
>>

>We have a small network cat5 linked with a small segment running along coax
>thin ethernet (for distnace reasons) at the end of this is a machine running
>XP quite happily. We have just replaced a machine in the middle of this
>segment with a new one running Vista Business. As we couldn't find any Vista
>drivers for the Linksys II dual coax, RJ45 card we had, we are using a bulk
>standard 10/100 card, with an old D-link media converter to convert the
>'coax' ethernet to 'cat5'. If we plug an XP machine onto this we get full
>communication, if we put the new machine with Vista we get 'network cable
>unplugged' if we take the Vista machine to the hub and plug it directly into
>the hub, we get networking. I tried disabling TCP v6 and just leaviing 4 to
>no avail. Any suggestions....Help :-))

> On Mon, 12 Mar 2007 17:16:08 -0700, Traveller_agr
> <Traveller_agr@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>

> >We have a small network cat5 linked with a small segment running along coax
> >thin ethernet (for distnace reasons) at the end of this is a machine running
> >XP quite happily. We have just replaced a machine in the middle of this
> >segment with a new one running Vista Business. As we couldn't find any Vista
> >drivers for the Linksys II dual coax, RJ45 card we had, we are using a bulk
> >standard 10/100 card, with an old D-link media converter to convert the
> >'coax' ethernet to 'cat5'. If we plug an XP machine onto this we get full
> >communication, if we put the new machine with Vista we get 'network cable
> >unplugged' if we take the Vista machine to the hub and plug it directly into
> >the hub, we get networking. I tried disabling TCP v6 and just leaviing 4 to
> >no avail. Any suggestions....Help :-))

> You are using an AUI port?
> The RG59 connector (thin coax) is called 10base2. (200 Meters).
> Use a "repeater" (Ethernet extender) at the CAT5e 100M point and you
> should be able to bump up your speed to 100MBPS.
>
>

>Hi Steve
>
>Thank you for the reply. In an ideal world we would have put cat5e cable in,
>but we had to bury a cable of 150 meters under a lawn flower bed and church
>car park, with no facilities to power a repeater hald way along. Hence the
>thin ethernet. We have more recently considered an wifi bridge, but can't get
>anywhere near a line of site and as this carries church stuff, people become
>very sensitive if they think that others might be able to hack into a wider
>broadcast wifi signal. So it looks like we'll have to put up with 10 mips for
>the moment. As you may have seen, Michale suggested we try a crossover cable,
>which has sorted it, and we are back onliine.
>
>Thanks again.
>
>Traveller_agr