Nic to Nic Crossover Cable....Is this a special cable?

[Killrose]

Or does any RJ45 terminated Network cable work?

 

[n0cmonkey]

It is a special cable. Basically a couple wires (just two right?) are switched. If they werent you would have send going to send and receive going to receive.

Some of Apple's computers can auto-detect a nic to nic situation and switch themselves around a bit so you wont need a crossover cable (I think I heard about this), but a crossover cable is probably the better solution there too.

 

[Killrose]

Ok thanks. Kinda what I gathered, but was'nt sure.

 

[Nutz]

this might help...

www.digitaldeities.net/articles/faq/faq.html

 

[nightowl]

The orange and green pairs are switched on one end of a crossover cable. This makes it so that the receive connections get the transmissions and the other way around.

 

[Servnya]

Yep, just cross pin 1 to 4, and 2 to 5. That'll take care of it.

 

[JackMDS]

CAT5 Straight, Crossover. What is CAT5, which one should I Use?

 

[PelchMat]

CAT5 is the standard cable for TP/RJ45 wiring, straight means that this cable was meant to be plug at on end on a NIC and at the other end on a HUB. Crossover cable is used for connecting 2 NIC or 2 HUBS. Most hubs only accept straight-through cable, but expensive ones have built in electronic cross overs that analyse what kind of cable you are using and configure themself in order to have a connection between NIC and HUB

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

its extremely simple to turn a regular cat5 into a crossover cable, i did it myself.

you cut some of the outer insulation off , then you cut the 2 orange wires and the 2 green wires. strip some insulation off of the ends of them, and wire the green-->orange, orange--->green. then green striped--->orange striped and orange striped--->green striped. solder them or twist/tape them, and use shrinkwrap or electrical tape to close up the 'wound' on the cat5, and you have a crossover cable. =)

 

[ScottMac]

Gawd I hope you're joking about cutting, twisting, and soldering UTP...and expecting it to be anywhere close to category rated (probably not even cat 3).

Pretty ignorant.

The Cabling Gods will smite thee someday, and make thee run Arcnet for all the rest of your days.

(You know, in Hell, they're forced to play FPS games over Appletalk I (!)...you have to DIAL UP the Internet, through AOL, at 1200 BAUD. It isn't pretty.)

Follow the specs and be forever blessed with superior throughput.

FWIW

Scott

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

<< Gawd I hope you're joking about cutting, twisting, and soldering UTP...and expecting it to be anywhere close to category rated (probably not even cat 3).

Pretty ignorant.

The Cabling Gods will smite thee someday, and make thee run Arcnet for all the rest of your days.

(You know, in Hell, they're forced to play FPS games over Appletalk I (!)...you have to DIAL UP the Internet, through AOL, at 1200 BAUD. It isn't pretty.)

Follow the specs and be forever blessed with superior throughput.

FWIW

Scott >>


the thought crossed my mind, but its only a somewhat temporary situation, and i'm on 10baseT....and i will hardly utilize that.

 

[spidey07]

and spidey descended from network world and smoot WongFooey.

then flogged him with wet Fooey noodles.

 

[mckennma]

Cross over cable is 1 and 3 & 2 and 6.

 

[mckennma]

You can get a Belkin cross-over cable.

RJ45 CAT 5e UTP Crossover Cable - 10 feet A3X126-10-YLW-M
The RJ45 CAT 5e UTP crossover cable with molded strain relief is designed to connect Hub-to-Hub, PC-to-PC or Mac to Mac. Features RJ45 male-to-male connectors and a molded strain relief.