LAN/Ethernet/Networking Cables

I'm wanting to connect my DVD player to the internet. I can't afford the manufacturer's adapter. I have a broadband router, but I need cables for it. At least 25' from the wall outlet to the router. Trying to look on-line, there seem to be different types of cables. I'm a little technologically challenged... Well, geographically too... The router is a Cicso/Linksys wireless G broadband router, Model WRT546 version 6. I've seen prices from $50 on down to $10. I'm worried that I'll wind up with the wrong type of cable. What's the best price for a 25' (or 35') cable? I'll need several shorter ones as well - to connect the DVD player, the Wii... Thank you!!!!!!!

For wired Ethernet indoors, any Category 5e certified cable will do. Don't overpay for overpriced brands like Monster.
Outdoors and "plenum" (inside an air duct) wiring has special requirements - but I assume you don't need outdoor or plenum-rated cable.
*disclaimer* I am not now, nor have I ever been, an employee of Best Buy, Geek Squad, nor of any of their affiliate, parent, or subsidiary companies.

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Can Connect to Printer through ethernet network cable, but not through Time Capsule connected to ethernet

I am a lone Mac user in a very large, unsympathetic institution. If I plug my MacBook Air into the ethernet cable in my office directly, I can print through the office printer. If I plug the ethernet cable into a Time Capsule and connect my Air to the capsule wirelessly I cannot print to the office printer. I can access the internet, so I know it isn't a problem with any of the hardware or the wireless connection.
Is it possible that the network, because of Time Capsule, shuffles me into a different subnet than the printer? Why would it do this? How would it know? Is there any kind of fix possible? (I use the Thunderbolt port to connect my Air to a monitor, so I can't use it to connect to an ethernet cable).
Thanks.

CuriousMacUser wrote:
Thank-you very much for this. How do I tell if it is in routher and bridge? How do I change it?
Tell me the IP address when you plug into the main network and can print..
Tell me the IP address when you connect wirelessly via the TC.
If they are the same IP range.. then you are on a bridged TC.. if they are different. Then you are on router mode TC and should bridge it.

Equium M50 will not recognise the LAN port - error: Network Cable unplugged

I own a Toshiba Equium M50 and have problems with the Marvell Yukon 88E8036 PCI-E Fast Ethernet Controller.
I used to connect via an 'ADDON' Modem/ADSL Switch and had no problems. I then replaced the ADDON with a 'NETGEAR' DG834G ADSL Modem/Router to gain the wireless port, and since then my machine will not recognise the LAN port. <error: Network Cable unplugged>.
I know that the cables are OK as I used them with other laptops and had no trouble. I can also plug in a PCI card to connect without any problems. It looks to me as if the Marvell Yukon 88E8036 PCI-E Fast Ethernet Controller has a problem with the netgear Modem/Router.
Anyone out there with a similar experience and some advice/suggestions?
PLEASE

Hi
For me it doesnt show like a LAN card problem but your router is a problem.
Check the device manager if the LAN card was properly recognized. If there are no yellow exclamation marks so everything is ok!
You can try to delete the LAN card from the device manager and after new reboot install the LAN driver again.
The issue has stared after installing or connecting the new Netgear modem router.
Therefore I would recommend to checking firstly the settings or to update the firmware on this router.
I have found additionally these useful websites
http://compnetworking.about.com/od/windowsnetworking/f/cableunplugged.htm
http://www.experts-exchange.com/Networking/Broadband/DSL_Cable/Q_20381405.html

How do I set up ethernet network having attached a MoCA adaptor from cable inlet into modem? It seems I need a "self assigned IP"?

I live in an old apartment building with very thick walls, and have a miserably spotty wireless network. In hopes of creating an undisturbed ethernet network for my computer and various other gadgets, I purchased two ActionTec Moca adapters, and set it up as suggested in a helpful review on Amazon: put one MOCA adapter "upstream" to the cable modem. The incoming coax with the Internet signal would plug into the MOCA "in" port then the MOCA's "out" coax goes into the coax on the cable modem. Then the LAN port on this MOCA goes into a LAN port on the switch/router. The Ethernet port on the modem goes into the WAN port on the same router. This "triangle" of connections is confusing to someone who is not networking savvy because they assume that all network connections have to be linear." The adaptors light up as they are meant to, indicating that the signal is there, and my iMac tells me thatDiagnostics window tells me that the internet connection appears to be working correctly." Only the little button in the Network Diagnostics panel next to 'Network Settings" is yellow. When I run the Setup Assistant, it says that "You cannot connect to ISP automatically, so you need to enter information to set up your connection. Selec the appropriate item then enter the required information. If you don't kow the infromation, contact your ISP." I checked "I have a DHCP Client ID and entered my IP address as copied from the network panel. It said congratulations you are now connected to the internet!" But then no browser window window would open, and Safari said "you are no longer connected to the internet". What did I do wrong?

I wouldn't expect the oMoCa adaptors to issue IP numbers, simply act as a passthrough to get the connection to the modem. It's not clear how you've got this set up or how the Airport comes into it.
From what you say the modem has several ethernet outputs - is this correct? - then you are directly connect to it by cable; and possibly an Airport Extreme is also connected to it.
Unless you are connected to the Airport either by cable or wireless it doesn't come into your own connection, though other computers may be connected through it.
If all this is as I described the modem must issue the IP numers and the Airport must have 'Connection sharing' in the 'Internet' section (after clicking 'Manual setup) set to 'Off (bridge mode)'. Then it simply passes the IP numbers issued by the modem through to any computers connected through it.
If the modem has only one ethernet output socket then it will be connected to a router (either the Airport or something else) through which everything else is connected, and that router should be set to issue the IP numbers as the modem will simply pass through the IP number issued by the ISP.
Whatever set up you have, you can only have one device issuing IP numbers or problems will result.
Your own Mac should be set to 'obtain an IP number automatically' or 'Use DHCP' (the same thing, and don't use 'DHCP with manual address). The number you are issued with will be in the 'local use' range, probably beginning with 192, and is not the same as the IP number seen by the outside world.

Basic home network setup troubles: Airport, ethernet, and cable modem

Hi,
Having only just subscribed to a cable broadband service we're experiencing some troubles setting up a mixed-mode home network and I'm wondering whether we've got some of the very basics messed-up.
What we have is:
1. Recent version (white) ibook, with airport, running 10.4.7;
2. Old G4 PowerPC (450MHz I think) running 10.4.7 ... airport card available;
3. Old powerbook (?Lombard) running 10.2.8 ... no airport;
4. A PC running Windows XP (not that important to have this in the network though) with no wireless;
5. A 3com SuperStack 1100 switch;
6. A cable modem;
7. A Linksys BEFSX41 Etherfast Cable/DSL Router ... 4 ethernet switch ports;
8. An airport express base station;
9. An HP laser printer connected into the ethernet LAN.
We'd like to keep both our wireless and ethernet networks running with all computers able to access one another, print to the laser printer, and access the broadband (fixed IP address) account. We're not (yet) conderned with hosting websites from our home computers.
I'm unsure of how we should configure this system. Do I connect the airport base station to the switch (which is what we presently have) or into the router? Do I connect each of the hardwired PCs (and the printer) into the switch
and then the switch to the router via single conenction?
If we use DHCP to access the router have I got the potential for the router and the airport base station to interfere with one another?
Any advice would be greatly appreciated. I've pulled a few TCP/IP setup-for-idiots books from our local library but this specific situation doesn't seem to be well covered.
Cheers
Dougal

You probably have a few options here that will work. Considering the number of wired devices, I would suggest the following:
Cable modem > (Ethernet cable) > [Internet port] BEFSX41 [LAN_1] > (Ethernet cable) > SuperStack switch > (Ethernet cable) > [Ethernet port] AirPort Express Base Station (AX) > (wireless) > wireless clients, AND
SuperStack switch > (Ethernet cable) > wired clients
Then setup the AX as a bridge, as follows:
To set up the AirPort Express Base Station (AX) as a bridge, using the AirPort Admin Utility, connect your computer directly (using an Ethernet cable) to the Ethernet port of the AX, and then, make these settings:
Network tab
- Distribute IP addresses (unchecked)
- Apply the new setting.
- Wait at least 5 minutes.

Iphone 5 Apple Mobile Device Ethernet comes up as "Network cable unplugged".

I've Windows 8 64-bit and want to use the iPhone 5 as my main wireless USB dongle and I've had this problem since Windows 7 where, no matter what I do, the Apple Mobile Device Ethernet comes up as "Network cable unplugged".
I've unplugged and plugged it back in, reinstalled iTunes, reset the network settings on the phone, made sure everythings up to date and reset the service in Windows to no avail.

Yes My personal hot spot is on in cellular data on and i have a data plan that allow tethering. that problem is start 4 days before. My iphone is do this job very well few days before.

Z77A-GD65 Ethernet Problems "Network Cable Disconnected"

I've been running a Z77A-GD65 and have been having network problems with the onboard ethernet. Every time I go to play a game online I'll play for about 10-15 minutes and I'll be disconnected. When I'm back on the desktop, my ethernet icon on the taskbar will show "network cable disconnected" even though everything is plugged in fine. Fiddling with the cable or changing the cable does nothing. Reboot the machine and it's working fine until again I play a game for 10 or 15 minutes and the same thing happens.
First, the card was showing the wrong MAC address as specified in the MSI FAQ for this mobo. Performed the fix but the problem is persisting. Tried the MSI driver and the newer Intel one. One time I got a "Code 10" error as posted in another thread and again, wouldn't correct itself until I rebooted.
This only happens when I'm playing games. Web surfing or downloads work fine and my connection won't be disconnected until about 10-15 minutes into playing an online game.
I put in another discrete Intel network card and that worked fine. No problems. Same with plugging in a USB wifi adapter (my current temporary solution). Therefore, I'm thinking it's an issue with the onboard ethernet or driver. Anyone else with this problem or how to resolve it? Using the latest v10.5 MSI BIOS.

Removing the Asus Xonar did not help.
Re-flashed the BIOS as well using a DOS boot USB key instead of M-Flash. Readjusted all setting to default. Enabled/disabled "Network Stack" in the BIOS (what is this supposed to do anyhow? It's undocumented).
Wiped all drivers for this network adapter and re-installed the current ones from MSI's website. No change.
Noticed that the adapter would correctly run at gigabit full-duplex when set to auto-negitiate. However, it would drop down to 10mbps before it finally showed "cable disconnected". Plugging and unplugging the cable did nothing until I reboot, then it would work again... until I ran a game online and it would disconnect after 10-15 minutes of play. Ran the Intel cable test and it was fine (and the cable and internet has been fine when used in conjunction with another discrete PCI-e Intel card).
Re-crimped the ends to be sure. Tested again and the cable connection is good. Yes I know how to crimp ethernet so please don't suggest anything being wrong with the cable.
I've pretty well nailed down that it is an issue with the onboard ethernet. I've read on Intel forums about problems with this chip on Asus boards. Hopefully an MSI employee can point me in a direction that could help, or at least have the problem resolved in a future BIOS update.

Network Cable unplugged

I have BT Total Broadband Anywhere Home Hub 2. I have used it successfully on my desktop pc and wirelessly with my laptop. However I went away for 2 months and was unable to use either (everything was switched off whilst away). On my return the laptop can't connect at all, I just get two grey monitors with a red X and the information 'A Network Cable is unplugged'. I bought a netbook when away and am having the same problem with that now.
On the laptop that worked before, on my Network Connections it is showing as follows:
Local Area Connection 2
Network cable unplugged
Broadcom 440 x 10/100 Integrated Controller
1394 Connection 2
Connected
1394 Net Adapter #2
I have tried connecting to the Hub with an ethernet cable without success and when I run the Hub Manager on the laptop it just says it can't connect with the hub. When I run the Hub Manager on my desktop it says there is no wireless device detected.
A check on the laptops device manager hardware shows everything as working properly, but when I try the Wireless WLAN configuration utility in Control Panel it tells me there are currently no wireless adapters available and enabled.
I am getting desperate as I cannot sit at the desktop for any length of time and need the laptop, please can anyone help?

chunkleberry wrote:
I have BT Total Broadband Anywhere Home Hub 2. I have used it successfully on my desktop pc and wirelessly with my laptop. However I went away for 2 months and was unable to use either (everything was switched off whilst away). On my return the laptop can't connect at all, I just get two grey monitors with a red X and the information 'A Network Cable is unplugged'. I bought a netbook when away and am having the same problem with that now.
On the laptop that worked before, on my Network Connections it is showing as follows:
Local Area Connection 2
Network cable unplugged
Broadcom 440 x 10/100 Integrated Controller
1394 Connection 2
Connected
1394 Net Adapter #2
I have tried connecting to the Hub with an ethernet cable without success and when I run the Hub Manager on the laptop it just says it can't connect with the hub. When I run the Hub Manager on my desktop it says there is no wireless device detected.
A check on the laptops device manager hardware shows everything as working properly, but when I try the Wireless WLAN configuration utility in Control Panel it tells me there are currently no wireless adapters available and enabled.
I am getting desperate as I cannot sit at the desktop for any length of time and need the laptop, please can anyone help?
Hi, the devices you have mentioned are the 'wired' connections. On most laptops, there are switched you can press to turn on and off wireless, is it posisble this has been done?
You can check to see if 'wireless network' appears by selecting the Start Button, then click on Control Panel and open, you should see 'Network' (doing this by memory) and open that up, you will see Wired Lan and Wireless Lan.
If Wireless Lan is disabled, you can right click on wireless lan and enable it, that should work.
CG
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Satellite A100-512 - Message appears - Network cable unplugged

My laptop model is Satellite A100-512 bought in Germany, am now in India, whenever i connect a LAN cable i get the status as "Network cable unplugged", the system shows the ethernet is working fine! when i looked into the device properties...what could be wrong!!!

Hi
Im not sure why this happen but it seems this has something to do with the OS settings!
I found this very useful MS knowledge base article which could help!
How to troubleshoot the following message in Windows XP: "A network cable is unplugged"
Please check it and try the different solution advices!

Toshiba laptop (C55-B5302) has "network cable unplugged" error message repeatedly. Why?

I recent purchased Toshiba Laptop running Windows 8.1 at local Best buy. The models number is C55-B5302.
When connected via ethernet cable, I keep seeing an error message in network adapter settings saying "network cable unplugged".
However, this "unplugged" message switches back and forth repeadedly from "connected" when I am not doing anything to the cable.
My internet is very sporadic because of this. I replaced the cable but still same error.
Any idea on how I can resolve the issue?
Please help. Thanks.
Solved!
Go to Solution.

Try downloading and installing the latest LAN driver:
RealTek LAN Driver File: tc40213700b.exe DOWNLOAD Version: 8.024.1218.2013 Posted Date: 2014-03-13
If that doesn't fix it, it could be faulty. You might want to exchange it.
- Peter

Network Cable Unplugged?? 915g-combo

I have the Realtek RTL8169/8110 Family Gigabit Ethernet NIC onboard LAN, but I cannot get it to say that the cable is plugged in, even though it is. I have tried downloading the latest drivers, with no luck. I'm stuck with using this old 10 Mbps card. I want to use the 10/100/1000 onboard one! Somebody help please.
[EDIT] When I run the MSI-LAN Utility and do Diagnostics on it, it says that it is connected and running at 100 Mbps (doesn't 'gigabit' mean 1000 Mbps?), but then it goes back to saying Network Cable Unplugged. I also get these results:

try check your Link duplex and speed into Network hardware...if have"auto-detect" is strandard recommended.
and
CAT5 cable is a high performance unshielded, twisted pair data transmission line. The twisting of the pairs gives this type of cable some immunity from the infiltration of unwanted interference. CAT5e is a cable with the same characteristics as CAT5 but is manufactured to somewhat more stringent standards that allow it transmission speeds of up to 1Gigabit per second.
Cat5 and Cat5e cables are for most purposes identical. Cat5e does have slighty better specs that would not be noticed on most home networks. Crossover refers to the way the cable is wired to the RJ45 plug.
Connecting you computer to a router/hub/switch or other network device you would use a straight through cable use only Cat5.
Connecting two computers together via their NICs you would a crossover cable, either CAt5 or Cat5e. The transmit and receive wires are crossed over at one end of the cable. like a crossover cable:
PC to PC
Hub to Hub
router to router
So connecting to a router/router modem you will need straight through cable, NOT crossover.
CAT5 cable (100baseT) contains four pairs of copper wire. CAT5 supports Fast (100 Mbps) Ethernet strandard. CAT5 cable runs are limited to a maximum recommended run rate of 100m (328 feet).
CAT5 enhanced (CAT5e, 1000BaseT) supports short-run Gigabit Ethernet (1000 Mbps) networking by utilizing all four wire pairs and is backward-compatible with ordinary CAT5
http://discountcablesusa.com/ethernet-cables.html
or more information go to google
thanks

A network cable is NOT unplugged, need help

So my internet appears to be working fine but yesterday I was playing a game (world of warcraft) and my latency jumped from the normal 200ms to about 800ms. It appears to be jumping back and forth 200 to 800 but I can't tell for sure.
I closed the game and checked my wireless signal, its 100%. Then I noticed an icon that said "A network cable is unplugged", im pretty sure that wasn't there before. So I checked my cables, nothing is unplugged or plugged in the wrong place. When you click it it says my LAN is disconnected and my Wireless LAN is connected. I don't know if thats important cause my internet is working fine its just when I need steady connection like games.
So that's the story, heres the 3 explanations I can think of, just tell me which one you think is right or if you know another possible problem.
1. I noticed the ethernet light on my modem (goes from modem to wireless router) was blinking, I don't know if its suppose to blink but the phone and power light are solid. So I took the ethernet that goes from router to computer and switched it with the "broken" one. The light stayed solid with the new cable. But the weird thing is the light that I put the "broken" cable in was staying solid too.
Maybe I should buy a new ethernet cable for the one I think is broken? I don't know how it would just magically stop working one day though.
2. My phone line that goes from wall to modem runs across a doorway. We trip on it often. Maybe the insides are all torn apart. But wouldn't the phone light be blinking instead of that ethernet light?
3. I bought an iphone the other week and I was having troubles getting the wifi to work at home. I fiddled with some network settings on my computer but im almost positive I set them all back to normal when I figured out I was just using the wrong password. In the chance I didn't get the settings back exactly I don't think it would say "network cable unplugged". And I believe I've used my internet a few days after all this happened.
Message Edited by jshapp03 on 04-21-2008 01:51 PM

same problem here for the most part. WoW recently dc lag issues but sometimes im still connected to the web and sometimes not. im currently set to Media Options: Full Duplex Media Subtype: 100baseTX. Should i try going Half Duplex and 10baseTX? Im currently using etherent and NOT wireless. Doesnt make a difference tho.
Message Edited by maplesmac on 05-30-2008 12:08 AM
I use Macintosh because its all i know. If i had been on PC's since 1987 i'd be using them today. Im too old to learn a new system : )

Can I have a wireless and ethernet network?

I want to have a wireless and hardwired/ethernet network in my house. I want to be able to leave one comouter (an eMac that I do most of my work from) connected to the internet via ethernet cable, and then have the Airport Extreme send out the wireless signal (to the laptops, G4PowerBook & MacBook, we also use in the house).
Right now I use my eMac as to send out the wirelss signal, but that required having the eMac on and connected to the internet to then be able to use the internet on our laptops. I hoped that getting an Airport would elimiate having to have the eMac on all the time.
I bought an Airport Extreme at an Apple Store (in Toronto) and the told me that all I needed to do was have the internet going in to the Airport fromthe modem, and then have the ethernet cable coming out from the Airport and to my eMac.
I set it up this way and while the Airport does send out signal to our laptops fine, the eMac does not get any signel from the ethernet cable.
I can't seem to find any information saying that this set up can actually be done. I find a lot of informetion saying that the ethernet-out port on the airport is for things like printers, and not for internet signal.
So, despite what I was told in the Apple Store, can this sort of set up be done? If so, what am I doing wrong?
-Greg

Greg,
Yes, you can do what you describe.
The airport extreme base station has two ethernet ports in the rear.
One is for the WAN port were you connect your modem and the other one is for the LAN port where you connect your computer (or hub, etc.)
Plug in your Airport Extreme like mentioned above. You will have to configure it for the Internet and to Distribute IP Addresses if you Internet Modem is NOT a router.
Then setup your computer via the Ethernet cable and Ethernet connection in your System Preferences > Network > Ethernet ...
Set your Airport connection or Ethernet connection on your eMac to DHCP....
Your Airport Extreme should then assign you an IP address, etc., and you should be able to access the Internet at that point.
Give that a try.

Lan card to lan card, what cable to use?

hello,
in the k7n420, have a lan card, well, its not a card, but its also lan, ethernet. my friend says that theres this cable that would allow to connect lan card to lan card without a hub, something called cross cable. you guys heard anything about this?
thanks,
edison

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Originally posted by RobRobinson
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Originally posted by ryboflavin
You can't use a "normal" straight through cable to connect your nForce to your sister's laptop, unless you are using a hub that has a built-in cross-over featuer (most hubs have this).
Technically, all hubs have that feature, because what a cross-over does is simulate what a hub naturally does. You may be getting confused with the uplink connection, I think.
Wow...yah, you are correct on that. I don't know what I was thinking.
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Originally posted by darkjedi i know what you mean but problem is, my lan cable's original config is not the same as the diagram says, yes it has the same colors but not in the same order.
if i were to follow the color codes exactly as the diagram, then i have to fix the first terminal first then twist the wires for the second terminal?
why is that that my cable's color order is not the same, arent cables standard?
Pre-made cables sometimes use a different color code. I don't know the reason for this. If you want to make a crossover cable out of your cable then I would cut BOTH ends off and wire it as shown in the diagram.
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and one more thing, if i were to rearrange the wires, are the wires specially made for "receving" or "transmitting"? or is it just color coding so you'd know where to pin it?
and since i did not folow exactly the diagram, because color order was not the same, i used common sense and just followed the order. could my order be incorrect, when i connect the cable, my lan lights up and my sister's laptop also lights up, when i look at the network connections, i get the lan status just like the dial-up connection status for internet.
The wires are not specifically made for sending or receiving. However, you should follow the color code in the diagram because it follows industry standards. There is electrical "crosstalk" that happens between the twisted-pair wires within the Category 5 cable. The cross-talk is minimized when using the color code in the diagram. The manufacturer of your cable chose a different coding scheme, but I am sure that you will find the same Rx and Tx patterns in the colors that they used are the same as the color code in the diagram. If you used a different code, using common-sense, and the cable is working then I wouldn't worry about it. The biggest problem occurs when an incorrect color code is used and the cable is a longer length.

Network Cable is Unplugged

Hello,
I buy brand new lenovo G575 laptop,
I install windows xp,
Can't connect on internet show me ''Network Cable is Unplugged'' ?
General when i try install some software ''setup.exe'' show me some error ''Can not find setup file'' ?
Thanks.

hi new89z,
Welcome to the Forums.
The ''Network Cable is Unplugged'' message usually appears if you don't have any ethernet cable attached to the laptop. If you connect via WiFi, you can hide the icon by following this microsoft article.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/902974
As for installing softwares, are you having the issue after extracting the files? Check this microsoft article:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/902974
Let me know your findings,
neokenchi
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