Walter McKinley wrote:
>
> I am attempting to network 2 home PC's that have been running flawlessly for
>

I just remembered something else you should check.
Not all Cat5/RJ45 cables are the same. Make sure your cables are
100 MB certified. You can use 100MB on both 10 and 100

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