computer hub

Isolate the problem using the following steps.

Test the network cable by replacing it with a known good cable from another PC.

If you still can't connect, connect the new cable between a PC that you know works and the port you are trying to use on the hub. If it can connect to the internet, the problem is most likely the network adapter inside the PC.

The most likely is a damaged CAT 5 Cable or maybe even a faulty Hub Port as hubs can and do fail.

I've seen cases where something gets stuck inside the socket prevent a connection being made and in severe cases destroying the socket. But if you have tried running that able to another computer from the same port in the Hub and the other computer works then you have to look at the one that isn't working and look to see if there is something in the LAN setup not installed correctly or if the LAN Drivers are actually installed. Even see if there is a Firewall blocking that port.

Col

Hi,
Since you are using a hub, as compared to a switch, check that you are not trying to use the "daisy chain" port for this computer.

A daisy chain (or what ever they are called) port has the transmit and receive wires transposed so that a normal port can be connected to allow the daisy chaining of more than one hub to increase the number of usable ports.

Herb

I would suggest that you try the "Questions" forum. The "Discussion" forum is for matters of general discussion, not specific problems in search of a solution.

Post problems such as this to the "Question" forum, rather than the "Discussion" forum. There are those who specifically seek out problems in need of a solution, and that's where they go to look for such.

Additionally there are the benefits that:

1) The "Questions" forum provides for your feedback, by way of your being able to mark "helpful" responses as such. This does not necessarily mean that a given response contained the complete solution to your problem, but only that it served to guide you toward it. This is intended to serve as an aid to those who may in the future have a problem similar to yours, so that they might have a ready source of reference available, thereby perhaps obviating the need for them to repeat questions previously asked and answered.

2) The revised TR makes it quite difficult to find both "Discussions" and "Questions" that have not had a fairly recent post, owing to some functions comingling them in the listings. By keeping each type in their respective forums, it is easier for all to find what they are looking for.