"Billz" <billz1@msn.com> wrote in news:1163341484.445163.139010
@i42g2000cwa.googlegroups.com:

> My home network is running thru a Netgear FWG114P "Wireless
> Firewall/Print Server". My apartment is wired so that 10 different
> locations are run into 1 closet. It runs problem free for both its
> wired and wireless connections. It's connected to a cable modem for
> Internet access.
>
> I swap in and out the 6 connections which I don't have room for in
> the Netgear unit depending on the location I need to connect from.
>
> I recently brought home from my office Bay Networks BayStack 350T-HD
> 10/100 Autosense Switch with 24 ports.
>
> I thought I could simply plug all of my computer connections into the
> switch then the switch into the Netgear unit. Keep the Netgear unit
> uplink to the modem and I would be done. But, none of the computer
> connections worked. Also the only light on the switch that came on was
> the one leading to the Netgear unit.
>
> I tried cross-over cables in each connection and while the light came
> on for the switch to Netgear connection (as it had before) nothing else
> seemed to connect with a cross-over cable.
>
> Can someone tell me what I'm missing? Does the switch belong at a
> different place in the process?
>
> Many thanks in advance
>

That is how it should work. Just unplug all devices from the current
switch and then plug them into the new switch.

Then use a patch cord from a port on the old switch LAN to a port on the
new switch LAN.

According to the users manual, this switch is not just a plain switch, it
is highly configurable and manageable.

http://www130.nortelnetworks.com/go/...L&DocumentOID=
13876&searched=BayStack%20350T-HD . (Watch for wrapping.)

You say you picked this up from you place of employment ? Could it
possibly be that it has been highly configured ?

I've also seen issues with auto-negotiation, but never an entire LAN
worth of devices, usually just that 'one' damn PC.