I live in a small town. We have wireless satellite internet in town. I am trying to connect my computer to a router so that I can share internet between 2 computers. First of all, the wire that enters the house plugs into a power supply, then a crossover cable plugs into that, the crossover plugs into a grounding box, out of the grounding box is plugged a flat grey ethernet cable that plugs into my computer. (sorry for the detail, but it's important) I cannot exchange that last flat grey ethernet cable with a regular cable, it doesn't work. the grey flat cable does not appear to be a crossover. i have tried both a replacement crossover, as well as a standard cat5e cable, neither work. What the heck would be the reason for this? What other type of a cable could this be? It has ethernet ends, only the cable is flat. Thanks
It's probably a serial cable with a special pinout. If it works with your PC's ethernet card, it should work with a router also.
