[olug] OT Cross Over Cables

Chad Homan choman at gmail.com
Mon Apr 22 15:26:28 UTC 2013


If your systems/network cards are post 1998, you may not need crossover
cables.   Auto-MDIX is pretty
heavily supported now a days.  Both network card need to support it, but if
they do.  No need for crossover
cables

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On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 10:03 AM, Kelly Williams
<kellywilliams81 at gmail.com>wrote:

> They make a adapter to make a patch cable into a crossover. Here is the
> link to the part http://www.cyberguys.com/**product-details/?productid=**
> 5663 <http://www.cyberguys.com/product-details/?productid=5663>.
>
> Kelly
>
>
> On 4/22/2013 9:33 AM, Bill Brush wrote:
>
>> I have to ask; what project are you doing?
>>
>> Just throwing this out, but some cards will auto-sense a point-to-point
>> link and auto-switch for it.
>>
>> Bill
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 7:42 AM, Kenny Kant <akennykant at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>  I am looking to purchase about 15 - 20 3ft crossover patch cables.  Can
>>> anyone recommend a local place?   This is for home lab stuff so I'm
>>> looking
>>> for about $1 a cable if that's possible.
>>>
>>> Thanks gang
>>>
>>> Kenny
>>>
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