Strand 300 Networking problem

[kalmatthew]

(apologies for jumping back to an old post)

 

The lack of auto-sense-ability is to be expected in this case. Most equipment which is advertised as "auto-sensing" or "auto-negotiating" simply means it will negotiate speed and duplex settings; nothing else.

 

Some switches (but never end-user devices) will also autosense whether they should be set up as MDI or MDIX, so with these devices a crossover cable may not be needed. But if you connect two end-user devices directly together, they won't have this functionality, so a crossover is always needed.

 

I can quite happily connect my tablet and my desktop, or my desktop to my server, or even the laptop to the server with a straight cable or an x-over cable (withouht any other equipment just the cable). Surley this invoves some auto crossing somewhere in the line.