Where do i start??? i have been laying down a local area network star topology at our company using normal CAT 5E UTP cable. Thing is our factory and accounts office are abit far apart around 65meters apart—-we have three computers in the accounts department which already are LANed and running on winxp—iwantd to add other 3 machines from the factory on the LAN and i did this by interconnecting two hubs/swithches i.e the accounts one and the factory one with a crossover cable? both LANS (factory and accounts) are working ok independently but as soon as i connect the crossover cable the network fails–funny thing is if i connect the crossover cable directly to a PC!! the PC connects fine without a hitch but conecting it to the hub gives me a continous error blink!!! the accounts swicth is a 24PORT(CNET POWER SWITCH CNSH 1600) N-WAY SWITCH while the factory one is an 8PORT CNET switch–av used a LAN tester and tested all ma cabling and crimping so am certain the cabling is ok so ma wonder is why the crossover between the switches is not working—we really need the interconnection?? how comes the crossover to a PC directly is working??? AV TRIED different switches in the factory, tried down-grading the PC’s speed & duplex from auto to 10mbps full duplex but still to no avail—any help will be highly appreciated.
Thankyou.