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crossover cable with a router
Name: Paul Colomb Date: May 23, 2003 at 10:45:52 Pacific OS: win xp pro CPU/Ram: p3 800
Comment:
i have a wireless router, and i am trying to connect one computer to it with a wire, i have a 100 foot cat5 crossover cable, will that work? thanks alot paul
Name: bmannix Date: May 23, 2003 at 10:48:34 Pacific
Reply:
no, a crossover cable is only for comp to comp connections, to go to a router you need a normal straight through cable
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Response Number 2
Name: tropic Date: May 23, 2003 at 12:20:38 Pacific
Reply:
A lot of newer consumer routers have auto-sensing ports... if yours has them, you can use both crossover and straight-through cables.
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Response Number 3
Name: Brian Delaney Date: May 30, 2003 at 06:56:21 Pacific
Reply:
If you don't have auto-sensing ports and still need that length of cable. Just couple a smaller crossover cable onto it and it turns it back into a straight. :)
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