Great, thanks for the info everyone. As to having 10 wires, and black pair, I was just typing and didn't really pay attention to count/color. Was more of a demo purpose than anything. Was looking for the color pattern/wiring layout more than anything as well as where to hook the uplink port to on my 3Com hub. The collisions I was getting was with no other network traffic going on and it was maybe 35MB's of data going from one machine to another. I think across the uplink cable, but can't recall specificly off the top of my head (I'm at work). I think I have a tan wire instead of a green-white, but I'll figure that out. Thanks again. Shawn On Monday 19 November 2001 11:13, Troy.A Johnson wrote: > This is 10 wires. Cat 5 has 8, as do RJ45 connectors. > > For straight through cable, clip on the bottom, from > left to right: > > orange white > orange > green white > blue > blue white > green > brown white > brown > > (if I remember correctly). :-/ > > Your uplink port can be connected to any > of the standard ports on your other hub with > straight through cable. > > Troy > > >>> fertch at mninter.net 11/19/01 11:06AM >>> > > This brings up an interesting point. I have two hubs at home, both are > 10Mbs. I was transferring files from one machine to another, and I was > getting collisions. The tranfer was fine, but I got to thinking about this. > I made my own cabling, but I don't know if I have then right or not. Could > someone either color code both ends for me? I thought it was like below: > > orange > orange-white > blue > blue-white > brown > brown-white > green > green-white > black > black-white > > Is this correct if you are looking at both cable ends with the security > clip towards you going from left to right? Also, one of my hubs is a 8 > port +bnc + 1 uplink (it's a D-link) and the other is a standard 8 port hub > (3 Com). So, would my uplink port go to port 8 of the 3Com hub? > > If someone can answer this or provide a link of proper cable making > procedures, would appreciate it greatly. > > > Shawn > _______________________________________________ > Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, > Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > _______________________________________________ > Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, > Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list