Crossover Cables
I understand that crossover cables cross the sending and receiving wires and that they are primarily used between hubs and switches, but if two machines are connected to a hub, how are their sending and receiving wires crossed? Does the hub cross them?
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Dubb Rich Member Posts: 48 ■■□□□□□□□□
I believe that straight cables are used to connect to hubs. I may be wrong though. -
Webmaster Admin Posts: 10,292 Admin
warl0rd wrote:Does the hub cross them?
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Webmaster Admin Posts: 10,292 Admin
No, you are correct. Straight cables are used to connect a host to a hub. -
w^rl0rd Member Posts: 329
It seems like it all depends on which ports you plug the cables into.
If I have a hub, and two PCs on that hub want to communicate with each other, then they both should connect to the hub with straight through cables into MDI-X ports, which cross the send/receive wires. Right? -
RussS Member Posts: 2,068 ■■■□□□□□□□
As a rule, normal patch leads are used to connect PC to a hub or switch. When connecting two switches together you can also use regular patch cables if they have an uplink port, otherwise a crossover cable is used.www.supercross.com
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