Re: Totally off topic: RJ45 fab

[James Youngman]

> >Hold the rj45 in your left hand, clip downward, with the cable
> >trailing away to the right.  The contacts should be uppermost.  Pin 1
> >is the one farthest away from you.
> 
> Then it will be wired wrong.  If the cable trails to the left, with the
> pins on the right, then pin 1 will be the farthest away and pin 8 closest
> to you.

Hmm.  The how-to-make-a-crossover-cable stuff I scribbled down in my
notebook must list the pins backwards then.  Sorry :-)


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