crossovers are for infrastructure to infrastructure connections (hubs, switches, routers, bridges, etc) straight through are for infrastructure to endpoint connections (hut connecting to a printer or workstation). Crossovers are sometimes used to connect 2 PCs directly, but it isn't officially recommended.
You can probably plug everything in with straight throughs unless you're feeding the hub from a switch(etc), in which case you'll need a cross over in one place only. The individual systems will definitely only need straight through connections, not crossovers. Kev. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Garth Meisel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, February 10, 2003 7:37 AM Subject: (clug-talk) crossover cables > Question. Will a simple hub (repeater) work if instead of running regular > cables in and out, by running a crossover to feed the hub and then crossover > cables to the individual systems? > >
