On Feb 2, 2006, at 16:48, Dwight Hines wrote:
Duh, I have several cables. I believe one is a cross over cable.
How do you know the difference?
Dwight,
You need to look at the wires in the pins in the plugs. Hold the plugs
side-by-side so that the copper connectors are facing you, and are at
the top of the plug, and that the cables fall toward the ground.
If the wires in the pins are in the same order, it is a straight cable.
If two pair are reversed, it is a crossover. The wires need not be in
any specific order - it's just whether the ends match, or whether 4
pins are reversed.
When I personally built cables, I built them like this:
1- white-orange
2- orange
3- white-green
4- blue
5- white-blue
6- green
7- white-brown
8- brown
For a straight cable, both ends would look like that. For a crossover
cable, one end would look like that, and the other would be ordered
like this:
1- white-orange
2- orange
3- white-blue
4- green
5- white-green
6- blue
7- white-brown
8- brown
Daniel
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