Crossover Cable..

[Bravestar]

I want to make my own crossover cable, need it for a LAN..
Could anyone tell me the colors in order on the one side and the colors needed on the other side?

 

[bwana]

People still need crossovers these days All my hardware is auto switching.

 

[TiredOfWaiting]

(1 and 3) and (2 and 4) should switch around.

 

[Bravestar]

Auto switching???

 

[TiredOfWaiting]

Yip, you can set network cards to do the cross over automatically. Then you can connect 2 PCs directly with a straight cable.

 

[bwana]

Auto switching???

Correct terminology might have eluded me but it detects of you're connecting pc to pc and eliminates the need for a crossover cable.

 

[bdt]

People still need crossovers these days All my hardware is auto switching.

Sho' 'nuff, all modern hardware *does* do auto MDI/MDIX ..but there are times when having a crossover is just damn handy. But to actually, you know, help .. here you go

 

[bwana]

Sho' 'nuff, all modern hardware *does* do auto MDI/MDIX ..but there are times when having a crossover is just damn handy. But to actually, you know, help .. here you go

Handy why? Because of this?

Automatic MDI/MDI-X capability is specified in the 1000BASE-T standard, so straight-through cables will work in almost all cases. But it is optional, so a crossover cable is needed if neither of the connected devices supports it, or the function has been disabled.

Thanks for the link though - I was pretty sure that it wasnt a figment of my imagination but its nice to be sure

 

[bdt]

Handy because of the very specific case of you have your pc, your mate has his ..and nary a switch in sight. But you DO have your crossover cable on hand so you can jack your machines into each other and get that [-]pr0n[/-] .."file transfer" done.

 

[bwana]

Handy because of the very specific case of you have your pc, your mate has his ..and nary a switch in sight. But you DO have your crossover cable on hand so you can jack your machines into each other and get that [-]pr0n[/-] .."file transfer" done.

Like I said - all my machines are auto-switching.

I think I'd have more trouble finding a crossover cable around here than I would finding a machine that needed one