Do your hubs have uplink ports? If so, use them. If not, buy new hubs. On Mon, 2001-12-10 at 21:47, Mike Bresnahan wrote: > I'm hoping someone can help me with some home networking. My apartment is > pre-wired with CAT5 cables. There are 2 RJ45 connections in the living room > and one in each bedroom upstairs. All 4 RJ45 have cables attached to them > that lead to the closet downstairs. In the closet are 4 RJ45 connectors on > the opposite end of the cables. In one of the bedrooms are 3 PCs and a > Cisco 675 DSL modem and there will be one PC downstairs. I have 10 7' CAT5 > cables, 1 8 port 10/100 dual speed, and 1 4 port 10baseT hub. How can I > make this network work? I tried simply putting the 4 port hub in the > closet, connecting it to the 4 RJ45 connections. This works fine as long as > I don't introduce the 2nd hub, however this configuration only allows one of > the 4 nodes in the bedroom to be connected because there is only one jack in > the bedroom. So I tried connecting the 8 port hub into the wall jack in the > bedroom and connecting the 4 nodes to it, but this rendered my network > useless. The machine downstairs cannot see the DSL router or any of the > other PCs. Can I not connect 2 hubs together like that? If not, how do I > make my network work? Do I need a switch? A router? > > Mike > > _______________________________________________ > Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >