18 port AmberNet Hub.. how to make it work?

[jere01]

I've got an 18 port AmberNet hub here and cannot seem to make it work. I'm assuming this is because of the fact that it is an AmberNet hub and not an EtherNet hub. What is AmberNet? I've tried connecting it up using a crossover cable and everything and nothing seems to show any active link. I've attached a few pictures of it that can maybe help.

Hub Pictures

Thanks for any help that can be given.

 

[EricHagen]

heh AmberNet?

Looks like a brandname to me. Or just a model name.

Did you try it with a "normal" ethernet cable, seeing as 'crossover' cables don't work with hubs.

Eric

 

[spidey07]

That does not look like a ethernet hub. I does resemble a serial hub though. One that was used to connect serial terminals and printers to mainframes.

 

[EricHagen]

That would make sense!

Funny since I installed a dozen of those this summer. Good Computone RAS2000. Those things are pretty nice actually.

ahhh... That could be the answer.

Eric

 

[Bozo Galora]

Oh geez, no wonder. Thats why they call it cluster hub.
Totally faked me out.

Edit: Nice detective work spidey 07


poster tried to return it and vendor disallowed saying it "wasn't an enet hub". HE WAS RIGHT!!

 

[jere01]

Thanks for the replies!

Ok so do you guys mean that I cannot use this hub to connect multiple computers together like a normal hub? If possible I'd like to connect anywhere from 10-18 computers to it so we could play a lan game. Will this not work?

Yes I have tried normal cables and also the crossover.

Please make this work!