Re: 10/100 NIC Recommendations?

[paul <paul hessels sheridanc on ca>]

At 08:32 AM 2/28/99 +0000, you wrote:
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>
>I have a quick question to tack onto the end of this.  On a friends pair of 
>machines
>I loaned him two network cards and wired a cross cable and he is running 
>peer to
>peer with no hub.  One of the cards is auto sencing, the other is an HP with 
>jack
>for 10 and a jack for 100.  His network works fine at 10 but won't work at
100.
>Does 100baseT require a hub?  Or does a cross cable have to be wired 
>different for
>100?  Does 100 base use more than 4 wires?
>
>--ja

I don't really know much about this but, I think 100BaseT4 uses all four pairs,
I think.  The thing I noticed is that cables I made myself wouldn't work at
100mb, but cables that I bought do.  I imagine this is because they make better
cables:)

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