Re: [Fwd: Re: [AT] Help configuring AT with XP and Crossover Cable]

Well, what is hard is using an XP computer as a router. It sucks.
Period. I always use a cheap 3rd party router box to handle this kind of
stuff. It's not that you *can't* get XP to work, it's just that doing so
requires examining the entrails of chicken at midnight under a full
moon. Jim Allchin should be ashamed.

--Tim


Tim Carlson wrote:

>Yeah, I think I'll grab a laptop tomorrow and bring it home to try it out.
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>I may just break down and get another IP and router (so that I have two)
>and make it work that way. I thought that this would be an elegantly
>simple solution to my work router problem.
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>There's been some great ideas generated. This should not be this hard, but
>oh well.
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>Thanks,
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>-Tim
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>On Sun, 20 Feb 2005 12:18:33 -0800, Brent Aliverti <[email protected]>
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>>I doubt this will help but I thought I would toss it in anyway.
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>>I recently bought a new house that had wired ethernet. The location I
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>wanted
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>>to plug in the Audiotron was not working. Audiotron would say path(share)
>>not found. I could plug my laptop into this same jack however and transfer
>>files quickly to my desktop machine in another room. So I wasn't really
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>sure
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>>if it was a jack issue or not.
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>>I could use a longer cable to plug the audiotron into a different Ethernet
>>jack and that did work. OK...so it seemed like it WAS a jack issue, and
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>>I was puzzled that I could plug my laptop into this "bad" jack and
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>transfer
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>>files just fine.
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>>I finally just broke down and bought a Hobbes ( http://www.hobbes-
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>usa.com/ )
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>>Lantest-E cable test from TriangleCables.com and tested the jack. Sure
>>enough...it was miswired. I called the original wiring contractor to come
>>out and fix it. I've actually found the $40 cable tester to be quite handy
>>to have around as it lets me quickly determine a bad cable or jack from
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>some
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>>other more esoteric network problem.
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>>Not sure it that helps you at all, but there it is.
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>>Cheers!
>>Brent
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