Problem replacing a hub for a switch

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Nando - 29 Nov 2004 17:14 GMT

Network operates properly only if there is a hub, but not with a switch.

A very strange trouble:

I have a small office network with 3 PCs: 1 Windows Xp home PC, 1 Windows Xp
professional PC and 1 Windows 98 SE PC. If I use my old 4 port hub the
network operates properly, but if I replace the hub with a 8 port switch
(the same 3 PCs) the W98 PC doesn't connect to the two others.

What is going wrong ? I can't understand this behavior across the network.

Any help will be appreciated,

Nando.

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Steve Winograd [MVP] - 30 Nov 2004 05:58 GMT

>Network operates properly only if there is a hub, but not with a switch.
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>Nando.

Make sure to connect all of the PCs to regular ports, not to the
uplink port.

Try explicitly configuring the network card duplex mode and speed on
the W98 PC. Automatic duplex and speed sensing doesn't always work.

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