I'm looking at newegg.com

[MAME]

and I found some cables for my computers to use with the router. But what's the difference between crossover and patch? Will they both work or no?

 

[Slogun]

No, you do not want crossover to connect with router.

Crossover are only to connect two comps directly via lan without router.

 

[MAME]

Great, thanks.
Can a patch cable work with a lan connection?

 

[orion7144]

Originally posted by: MAME
Great, thanks.
Can a patch cable work with a lan connection?

Yes, The other thing that a crossover cable is used for is to connect two different things together like a switch and router. Some have an "uplink" port that you have to use a crossover cable and some have a switch by the uplink port to tell it what cable is connected and it will do the crossover for you.

For your application you just need the patch cable as Slogun said.

 

[Lifer]

Originally posted by: Slogun
No, you do not want crossover to connect with router.

Crossover are only to connect two comps directly via lan without router.

i can think of half a dozen other reasons to use a crossover other than the one you mentioned.
so i doubt that's the "only" purpose of it

 

[Schadenfroh]

Originally posted by: Lifer

Originally posted by: Slogun
No, you do not want crossover to connect with router.

Crossover are only to connect two comps directly via lan without router.

i can think of half a dozen other reasons to use a crossover other than the one you mentioned.
so i doubt that's the "only" purpose of it

yeh, connecting switches, hangings, trippings, piano wire like applications

 

[Slogun]

Originally posted by: Lifer

Originally posted by: Slogun
No, you do not want crossover to connect with router.

Crossover are only to connect two comps directly via lan without router.

i can think of half a dozen other reasons to use a crossover other than the one you mentioned.
so i doubt that's the "only" purpose of it

Rolling your eyes at me, how annoying....
ok, so not the "only" use, but jeesh the guy basically just wants to know if patch and crossover are interchangeable which they are not.:|

 

[Macro2]

Patch is a basic term.

Make sure you get a STRAIGHT THROUGH cable which is for connecting dissimilar devices....In your case it's the NIC on a computer to the router or the router to the cable modem etc.
If you face the connectors the same way in front of you and the color sequence of the wires is the same then it's a straight through.


BTW, crossover cables are for connecting SIMILAR devices....like a computer (NIC) to another computer (NIC), a router to a router or a switch to a switch etc.

 

[Matthias99]

Except that almost every router and switch nowadays has an "Uplink" port which is internally crossed, so you hardly ever need those cables anymore. The only time I've ever needed them was connecting *hubs* at my old job in IT (and they're hard to come by now that 10/100 switches are practically the same price).

 

[Matthias99]