Hotswapping network cables

[AlphaIVT]

Is this bad? What would be harmed by doing this?

 

[Warrenton]

Nope, nothing bad will happen, it just looses connection, and when you put it back it regains connection. Nothing will be damaged unless you do something wierd that I can't even think of. Should be able to plug and unplug ethernet cables as you wish.

 

[hans007]

a friend of mine was swapping his keyboard once. Shorted out his abit it5h rev 1.5. Something like that i guess could happen. that board sucked though, and i'd doubt it could happen more than 1 in a million times on a network card.

 

[Argo]

If you are talking about ethernet, nothing will happen. And if you plug the cable back in within a minute or so, you won't even lose connection.

 

[AMB]

I just tried it now, cannot see any damage done

 

[Warrenton]

Like I said, ethernet won't care. Heck, I loose connection, but the instant i plug back in it reconnects.

 

[Mark R]

Certain types of connection, namely ethernet, SCSI and USB are designed to be hot-swapped. There should be no damage caused from hot-swapping such devices.

Most other things, such as keyboard, mouse, parallel or serial ports could potentially be damaged. I'll admit though, that I've done this occasionally, and never damaged anything.

 

[Ausm]

I do it all the time...never hurts a thing


Ausm

 

[AlphaIVT]

Whoo! Nice to know, I was hotswapping my bro's connection to our net, he was being an ass, as the router his computer is connected to is in my room.