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[Lethalgj]

IC Network CAT-5e Patch Cable, 5 Metre White.

Patch Cable UTP CAT5E crossover red 5m RJ-45/RJ-45, AWG24

 

[NateSLC]

I thought a patch cable was for your general hub / switch / router stuff, and a crossover was only to be used for a NIC to NIC connection between 2 PCs.

I have a few ethernet cables, but they either say patch or crossover. Not both. Some cables don't say either, but they're patch.

 

[YOyoYOhowsDAjello]

I'm not great at networking, but I believe a crossover cable is generally used to connect 2 computers together with just 1 cable, while a patch cable is the standard kind that you would use to connect to a router, modem, hub, etc.

EDIT: I'm so slow

 

[TheInvincibleMustard]

No, not quite ... a "crossover" cable switches two wires from one end to the other (ie, they plug in different pins) which allows two computers to connect to each other without the need for having a hub/switch/router/etc in between. A regular "patch cable" (ie, not a crossover) will not work to talk between two computers directly. You also will not be able to use the crossover cable to connect to a hub/switch/router/etc unless it has uplink ports for crossover cables.

Note: it is also possible to make your own crossover from regular patch cable, or vice versa.

HTH


EDIT -- crap, that's what I get for including a link in my response, a slower response time

 

[Lethalgj]

So wait the crossover cable with Rj-45 conecters cannot go into the router?

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: Lethalgj
So wait the crossover cable with Rj-45 conecters cannot go into the router?

You want a regular patch cable to go from your computer to a switch/hub. You want a crossover cable to go between switches/hubs. You can use a patch cable when an "uplink" port is present.

 

[TheInvincibleMustard]

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey

Originally posted by: Lethalgj
So wait the crossover cable with Rj-45 conecters cannot go into the router?

You want a regular patch cable to go from your computer to a switch/hub. You want a crossover cable to go between switches/hubs. You can use a patch cable when an "uplink" port is present.

Ah ... "uplink" yes ... thank-you, I couldn't remember the correct word ... closest I could come up with is "auto-sensing" but that's for full/half-duplex negotiation, now that I remember correctly.

EDIT -- 500th post!