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| nkhomi 2006-07-01, 2:07 pm |
| Friends,
Input will be much appreciated: I have made a broadband connection through 3 buildings about 500meters apart via fibre-optic cable terminating in each building. It originates from the antenna to a hub via Cat5 cable runs to the next building via fiber and loops there to the next building.
In the second building it runs through a fibre converter before going to the last building terminating into a hub, then to two PCs.
The problem I'm having is that the port in the originating hub seems to be losing contact every so often. To restore connection I have to reset the hub. What may be the problem?
Any suggestions will be highly appreciated. | |
| Matt1999 2006-08-08, 5:18 pm |
| I just typed up a long reply and then this web site said I did not have access to the web page after I hit send so instead of retyping everything I am going to just give you some ideas.
Your post is very vague so I needed to make a ton of assumptions.
Ideas:
Check the fibre cable with some like a "Noyes MLP 1 Fiber Optic Loss Test Kit" Fibre cable is very delicate and fragile and it's possible something is wrong with the cable.
Try replacing the short CAT5 cable from the antenna to the HUB.
(I wasn't sure if the CAT5 connection was your problem or the fibre)
Replace the HUB. Maybe you have an extra. Or try different ports... | |
| ccomputers 2007-01-21, 12:23 pm |
| Hi There
Is it possible the hub is partitioning due to crap on the line ? Thus dis-connecting the port and forcing a reset.
Try, switching hub's first (easiest), also try down the far end (Side that is giving problems), and maybe only connect 1 known working machine.
Last bet is replaceing the Fibre, it may have cracked during installation (I have done this on a few occasions :-) ).
As a suggestion, instead of mixing CAT5 and fibre, and looping the connections, why not try run a single fibre backbone between the buildings. I suggest this just in case somewhere in the configuration ur Cat5 exceeds 100 Metres. |
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