Why cant I make my laptop ethernet cards recognise 10Mbs?

[John Summerfield]

phil prentice wrote:
> Thanks for that, tomorrow I will try using a non-cross-over cable and see if 
> that helps.  Just one question though...if it was that..would it still 
> explain it working fine at 100Mbps? i.e. when i plug the same cable into the 
> other laptop it detects that with-out a problem(at 100Mbps).  I will try it 
> though.

I don't think changing the cable will help, but some newer NICs detect 
the partner's capability on the wire and automatically compensate, so 
cross cables aren't needed.

I think my G4 Mac does that, some Billion routers do. They're not _that_ 
new.

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Cheers
John

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