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09-03-2014 7:24 PM
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I am new to plusnet, as I have just moved house to an area with no fibre and therefore I am on adsl. That problem aside, can anyone tell what I am doing wrong with my connections? I have a pc and xbox in one room with only one rj45 cable. I tried the cable splitters but that did not work so I purchased a Netgear FS108 switch. I plugged both the pc( windows XP) and the xbox into the switch and connected the switch,via the single cable to one of the ports on the modem supplied by Plusnet.This does not seem to work on either the pc or the xbox. If I connect the pc directly to the cable without the switch I can get it to work. What am I doing wrong?
Any advice/insults will be most welcome.
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Dave
Re: Advice please
09-03-2014 7:36 PM
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09-03-2014 7:49 PM
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09-03-2014 7:56 PM
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The fibre modems are set up differently to those for adsl.
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09-03-2014 7:57 PM
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09-03-2014 8:57 PM
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09-03-2014 9:10 PM
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09-03-2014 9:11 PM
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09-03-2014 9:39 PM
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Have you connected just the PC (without the X-Box) to the switch (and tried an alternative cable from the switch to the PC)? If so, it sounds like a faulty switch to be honest.
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10-03-2014 7:32 PM
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I have tried all these things to no avail.The switch is good because I have already had it downstairs at the modem with all 8 ports connected(from other rooms) and it worked fine. It is when I try to run two cables into the one I have from in the room in question,that the problems occur. Like I said previously, I initially tried the cable splitters and when these failed I removed the switch from downstairs and took it upstairs to try . I have read that this should work fine,so I was surprised that I cannot get it to work.
I have tried both the PC and the xbox on their own ,and both failed to work. As soon as I remove the switch from the equation I can get both to work,but not at the same time,obviously
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10-03-2014 9:17 PM
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