would a crossover cable work for regular ethernet?

[SubZeroX]

would a crossover cable work for cat5 regular ethernet? Damn, i bought the wrong cable.

 

[Electric Amish]

...not unless you plug into an uplink port on your hub/switch...

amish

 

[mpitts]

no and yes you did.

 

[KC5AV]

It really depends on your application. If you are using it in a hub, probably not.

 

[SubZeroX]

I mean just plugging it into a ethernet port, would it work?

 

[FoBoT]

some newer switches have auto-sensing ports and will internally change the wire pattern to match either a standard or cross-over cable, most older switches/hubs can't do that

but most have an uplink port so just use that as EA says

 

[Kadarin]

Barring uplink-specific ports, or advanced ports that autosense the connection, hub-to-hub or computer-to-computer connections require a crossover, whereas computer-to-hub connections require a standard Cat5.

 

[PrincessGuard]

Originally posted by: SubZeroX
I mean just plugging it into a ethernet port, would it work?

Depends what's on the other side. If it's another computer, then yes. If it's a hub, then no. If it's a switch, then maybe.

 

[SubZeroX]

umm...don't know what's on the other side. It's basically the school network. I guess I just gotta give it a shot.

 

[notfred]

no. Unless you bought two of them and connected them... it'd be a double crossover cable, that should work.

 

[vtqanh]

or you may as well just unwrap the cable and rewire it 😛

 

[sohdahere]

I dunno why you asking me?

 

[JeffreyLebowski]

Originally posted by: FoBoT
some newer switches have auto-sensing ports and will internally change the wire pattern to match either a standard or cross-over cable, most older switches/hubs can't do that

but most have an uplink port so just use that as EA says

I thought auto sencing meant that they could dectect and run 10Mbs and 100Mbs connections on the same switch?? not rearage the connectors inside?