Hi Shawn,

I pulled the NIC out when this was happening to me last time.  Swapped it
with another computer (known working), left the cables the same as they
were, and the problem transferred.  So I just tossed the card.  At the hub,
during this, I noticed, via the pretty little lights :-), several
crashes/interference even when I though no data was being transferred.  Like
I said, it ended up being a bad NIC.  Otherwise, I tried/experienced exactly
what you have described.  New card cleared everything up immediately.

HTH
David Abbe
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> terminators and a different set of crimpers and I still get an itermittent
> signal. When I tested the cable on an existing machine (which is
> already on
> the network and working) I could only get an intermittent signal
> at the hub
> and was unable to ping the client or the server.  have tried
> numerous RJ-45

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