trying to set up my vesacamm through a network hub

[Chris Wool]

quick guess george is the firewall

[Frank Horner]

If you are connected direct and working ok you must be using a crossover cable, and to work through a hub you need the std network cables.

Frank

[David Rowland]

some switches are auto sensing and cross over cables work…. (hubs is an old device from the 90’s :wink:)

On a normal set of wires George, plug in and a light will appear on the switch and the computer socket, this means ‘connection’… then thats it.

[George Elsmore]

quote Chris Wool:

quick guess george is the firewall

turned off firewall and still not connecting

[George Elsmore]

quote Dave Rowland:

some switches are auto sensing and cross over cables work…. (hubs is an old device from the 90’s :wink:)

On a normal set of wires George, plug in and a light will appear on the switch and the computer socket, this means ‘connection’… then thats it.

plugged in light on but versa works says not connected

[David Rowland]

George… do you have Lights?! oh u said

Ok, IP numbers then, but then again it cant be.

So if a cross over works, then you put a ‘switch’ in the middle of it all and then plug in and it doesn’t work.. hmm but lights are on.

Where is your internet signal coming from ? this same switch/hub?

[David Rowland]

Like this

[George Elsmore]

Dave it is set up as the bottom diagram but versa works says that the printer is not connected???

[Chris Wool]

my experience is you can’t have the printer on the same hub as the internet.
as the internet hub wants it on automatic selection. knocking the printer out.
my internet hub is connected by usb.
4 printers and 5 computers through a separate hub with set ips.
but that leaves me with internet on only one computer.

chris

[David Rowland]

hm.. i have all network data connected into 24 port gigabit switch, its non-managed too and doesn’t miss a beat.

There is this belief of running a printer on an isolated switch, i guess its for support reasons as you isolate it out.

George, you gonna have to write some makes / model numbers down now, so we can see if that switch has got DHCP enabled and is conflicting with your router. If you got it setup as the bottom drawing, then that perfect.

[George Elsmore]

Dave, the switch is a netgear 5-port 10/100 fast ethernet switch and the router is a gigaset se572 wlan dsl if that helps

[David Rowland]

well i have one of these switches under my desk, nothing special about them and can be used the way you describe.

If Netgear is the white one, you should have 3 numbers lit (1 for PC, 1 for router, 1 for printer)
If its the blue one then you should see 3 lights above each cable.
Normally the lights flash occasionally for network traffic and can flash together.

The router gigaset (orange by any chance?) controls the network, it gives out a signal (called DHCP) to the printer and the computer to tell it whos boss, it will tell the computer to become a certain IP number, however if the printer is set to ‘fixed IP’ which they are normally it will become invisible to the PC if the numbers are not similar to each number.

IF all lights are working on router then…

In the TCPIP settings is something called IP number on the printer…
write this down… i take a guess at 192.168.0.42 for the printer.

On the start up CMD (command prompt) and type the command IPCONFIG
this will list out your IP number… make a note. I am expecting this to be similar to 192.168.0.2 or some number that is non-sense.

BUT
If your still getting this for local area connection

Then I am going to blame a cable!!! find another and try between switch and PC and make that link work

[George Elsmore]

Dave you pointed me in the right direction it was all to do with different ip addresses for the printer versa works and the computer now they are sorted cheers 🙂 iou a beer