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claritywire · 05-21-2009, 10:44 PM

Redoing the network in my small office and some of the old Dells won't work if we use cat5e or cat6 ethernet cable. The cat5 cable works fine and the newer cable (cat5e and cat6) work on the newer systems.

Anyone have any thoughts?

Thanks in advance..

05-21-2009, 10:44 PM	#1 (permalink)
claritywire Registered User Join Date: May 2009 Posts: 4 OS: xp	cat5 works but not cat5e or cat6 Redoing the network in my small office and some of the old Dells won't work if we use cat5e or cat6 ethernet cable. The cat5 cable works fine and the newer cable (cat5e and cat6) work on the newer systems. Anyone have any thoughts? Thanks in advance..