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Question about crossover cables

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dartblazer

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I read an article once that showed how to turn a cat5 coupler into a crossover coupler. Anyone have a link or instructions.

Thanks in advance
 
In general, it is not a good idea.

However, one trick will be to connect a short Crossover CAT5 cable to one side of a coupler, and a regular straight CAT5 (long if you need a long cable) to the other side.

The result is a long CrossOver Cable.
 
Ahh. The famous two-port-hub trick. Couplers are, for the most part, bad. You loose a lot of the electrical characteristics of a Cat5 cable when you use them and are more prone to interference and errors. Not as big of a deal with 10BaseT, but 100BaseT pushes it harder and can generate more errors.

- G
 
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