10, 100 base Cables / Switches

I want to connect 3/4 computers for sharing my ADSL connection through a switch within say 5 - 7 meters.

What cables should I be using 10 base T / 100 base T cables, and

what additional steps should i have to take while setting up my switches to those 10/100 standards?

What color coding should i be using?

And by the way .. what is all that 10 base 100 base switches / cables available in the market ..

Thanks for the help !

 

Your ADSL support should be able to walk you through it quickly.

100 base T

Just buy the cables if you don't have the crimps.

Make sure there longer than what you need. You can always roll the xtra up under the desk or whatever.

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Cable - most of the commonly available ethernet, copper, unshielded twisted pair cable available today is Cat5 which will handle 100Mbps and easily the much slower 10Mbps traffic.

Your switch will either deal with 100Mbps or it won't. Most will. No adjustment needed.

The network cards (except wireless) will either be 10Mbps and won't do faster or will be 100Mbps and will do 10 or 100. They should try to autonegotiate a speed with the switch and both decide they can do the faster speed easily.

But for broadband internet use, it really doesn't matter since there is no way you will get anywhere near 10Mbps from ADSL. More like 1Mbps or less. This means that the slowest NIC you can find will run faster than your internet connection will be.