steelhead wrote: > Is a crossover cable the same as a 'standard' ethernet cable, like the > cable I would use to connect my router to my computer? I had not heard > the term crossover before looking into this.
Almost. A crossover cable looks externally exactly like a standard ethernet cable, but internally the transmit wire on one end connects to the receive end on the other. Or maybe it is the transmit connects to the transmit. Its been a while since I made on. Normally you connect a PC/Mac/thing to a wire that goes to a hub/switch/router. You take another thing/PC/Mac, connect it with a wire to the same hub/switch/router. The first thing yacks out to the hub, which relays it back to the second. And vice versa. With a crossover cable, you skip the hub, but you need a different internal wiring. Which is why in the earlier post I mentioned pulling my hair out when I get them confused. You need a $100 tester (or talent and a continuity tester and a steady hand) to tell them apart. -- Pat http://www.pfarrell.com/music/slimserver/slimsoftware.html _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
