However, you cannot use a regular Ethernet cable -- called a straight-through or a patch cable -- to accomplish this. Instead, you need a Category 5, or CAT 5, or later crossover cable, available ...

When my son and I built my office space, we wired many RJ-45 jacks and routed them with CAT5e cable to a patch panel. Recently I moved some equipment and used the patch panel to connect it with an ...

If you're already familiar with cable wiring, you can skip to 1:45 to get right to the good stuff, namely how to build your own crossover cable from a regular ethernet cable, how to build a multi ...

I have my own real estate business with a few employees, and I typically maintain our company’s computers and network equipment myself. Now I might not be the best IT person, but for the most part ...

Insert one end of the crossover cable into the laptop's Ethernet port. ... commercial straight-through Ethernet cable from left to right are: white/orange, orange, white/green, ...

The RJ45 cable, also known as an Ethernet cable, is a standard cable which has four twisted pairs of colors. It is easy to crimp a RJ45 cable and make it into a straight cable or cross the cable as ...

We all know Ethernet has the crossover cable, cars have jumper cables, and RS232 has the null modem. Well, it is about time our wall sockets get their own crossover cable.

Connecting two computers using a crossover ethernet cable is the safest and easiest way of transferring files, pictures, videos, and music. This data transfer creates a network for sharing data, and ...

say I connect two Macs that support gigabit ethernet. can I use a plain-old crossover cable (cat5) and get "gigabit" speeds? or is there a special gigabit version of cat5? I'm confused.

I think that there's a way in linux to have a NIC act as though there is a crossover cable attached when it's really a straight cable, similar to how some hubs and switches have a port with a ...