[Wylug-discuss] Laptop and wireless questions

[Anne Wilson]

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On Friday 22 Jul 2005 18:55, gARetH baBB wrote:
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> You say getting cat5 through a hole in a thick wall is a big problem, so
> even if on the other side of the wall they go in *completely* opposite
> directions you run one cat5 (which can actually give you two 100M
> connections, there are four sets of pairs in cat5, 100M only uses 2 sets
> of pairs) through the difficult obstacle and buy a cheap 10 quid 8 port
> switch for the other side of this wall so you now run more off from there.
>
Hold on - let's see if I understand you.  At the moment there are two 8-port 
switches linked, on top of each other.  As I understand it you are saying 
take out the top switch and in its place attach one of the cables that comes 
through to this part of the house, then bring the second switch in here and 
plug it into the wall where box2 normally connects.  Finally connect boxes 
1,2 and the laptop to the switch?  If I've got that right, it does sound 
physically possible, and would solve the problem totally.

Anne
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