10-04-2006, 04:27 AM
I finally got my new 8-port gigabit switch installed last night. Took awhile to get things all squared away, since I swapped my two wireless routers out so that the more reliable Buffalo became the primary and the SMC (with built-in print server) became secondary. I didn't finally get the print server working correctly again until this afternoon.
I have a rev.2 PowerMac G5/2GHz dually, a 20" 'USB2' igloo iMac, a PBook G4 Al 1.5GHz and an old Cube that runs headless as a fileserver. I'm not seeing the gigabit light on the Cube or the iMac, for some reason. I don't recall if the Cube did gigabit, but I know the iMac should. Is there something esoteric I should be doing to kick start it? I know I've read things about 'enabling full duplex' or some such verbage, that was in relation to this. Suggestions? BTW, I made new CAT5e cables for everything before putting the new setup into action, so that shouldn't be the problem...
Also, I now have a variety of old enet cables that are mostly CAT5, but I found one that I think says CAT3 and only seems to have four wires (two pair). Is that beast worthless or what? I suppose it would serve some PC user in need of a crossover cable maybe?
Thanks in advance for any tips or hints regarding getting gigabit working with all of the machines.
John-o
I have a rev.2 PowerMac G5/2GHz dually, a 20" 'USB2' igloo iMac, a PBook G4 Al 1.5GHz and an old Cube that runs headless as a fileserver. I'm not seeing the gigabit light on the Cube or the iMac, for some reason. I don't recall if the Cube did gigabit, but I know the iMac should. Is there something esoteric I should be doing to kick start it? I know I've read things about 'enabling full duplex' or some such verbage, that was in relation to this. Suggestions? BTW, I made new CAT5e cables for everything before putting the new setup into action, so that shouldn't be the problem...
Also, I now have a variety of old enet cables that are mostly CAT5, but I found one that I think says CAT3 and only seems to have four wires (two pair). Is that beast worthless or what? I suppose it would serve some PC user in need of a crossover cable maybe?
Thanks in advance for any tips or hints regarding getting gigabit working with all of the machines.
John-o