Re: Cable questions

["Frank Mc Alinden" <frankmc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Robin

If im correct , i have used those back to back female connectors and im
sure
they swap some of the pairs over.....and i think to get it correct i had to
have 2 back to back connectors in circuit, the second one to swap back the
pairs.....hope that makes some sense......
HTH
Frank


----- Original Message -----
From: "Robin Edwards" <robin@xxxxxxx>
To: "UKHA Group" <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2007 5:01 PM
Subject: [ukha_d] Cable questions


>I have a couple of questions related to connectivity I'm hoping someone
can
>shed
> light on.
>
> First, I managed to break the little piece of plastic off the end of
the
> cable
> that holds the wire into my CM12U.  Anybody got a spare they'd sell
me,
> please
> contact me off-line.  Or anybody got experience of using a CM12U with
> Misterhouse on Linux using USB connect?
>
> Second, to get music into my bathroom, which is blocked from rest of
house
> and
> my wireless signal by an eighteen inch solid limestone wall I bought
an
> ME101
> wireless bridge.  That I installed in my kitchen and ran the cat5
cable
> round
> wall and through hole in door frame.  It worked ok but had two cables
with
> a
> joint (back to back female connector).  I replaced the two with one
long
> one
> over Christmas and now it doesnt work, sum of my testing shows....
> 1: Slimp3 to ME101 on any one of the three cables neither can see each
> other
> 2: Slimp3 to ME101 on any two of the three cables with connector in
place
> neither can see each other
> 3: Laptop to ME101 on any one of the three cables works fine
> 4: Slimp3 to ME101 on any two of the three cables works fine
> 5: Tests 1: and 2: repeated with another Slimp3 same results not
seeing
> each other
> 6: All tests repeated using a switch in another room all worked fine
>
> It seems like to me I have an incompatability that appeared between
the
> ME101
> and the Slimp3 by changing the cables and it doesnt go away.  I cannot
> understand it.  Any logical explanation welcome, bathtime too quiet
now.
>
> regards, robin
>
>
>
>
>