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That wasn't that long ago was it..? /looks longingly out the window, and catch my aging face in the reflection
by soundworlds 2mo ago
That wasn't that long ago was it..?
/looks longingly out the window, and catch my aging face in the reflection
- abrookewood 2mo agoYup ... still have some old 'xover' cables lying around - all of which are RED in colour to explicitly declare their usage
- valleyer 2mo agoInteresting. I don't remember my crossover cables being marked that way; you had to read the dot-matrix printing along the side to know. Color would have been way more handy.
- zeristor 2mo agoI seem to recall crossover cables being yellow.
- nubinetwork 2mo agoThe ones at $dayjob were blue, but we used to tape post-it notes to the ends to make sure we didn't lose them.
- Hikikomori 2mo agoPurple cables are faster.
- Symbiote 2mo agoMine were mixed colours, the cable was grey but the "boot" and connector were black.
- jalk 2mo agoI had quite a few cables with a yellow crimp "jackets" just behind the RJ45. IIRC they came with DSL modems / routers
- tedeh 2mo agoWell I have to add that was interesting too. Because I remember you had to hold the ends up next to each other and compare the order of the colored wires. Same order left-to-right, not cross-over. Anything else, cross-over.
- rmunn 2mo agoI added labels (just a piece of paper under some clear tape) saying "CROSSOVER" at both ends of the cables, so that if I ever plugged a crossover cable into a place where I needed a straight-through, the label would be right there next to the plug.
- dcl 2mo agoI believe a lot of NIC's could autodetect and adapt to the cable? I'm pretty sure I had 2 computers connected to each other using a regular network cable.
- nom 2mo agoYeah it died out because the hardware advanced and could just switch automatically. With 1gig Ethernet it became a requirement, the definite end of existence for crossover cables.
- minetest2048 1mo agoNot just a requirement, 1gig ethernet transmit and receive at all of those 4 pairs simultaneously to get the throughput
- mr_toad 2mo ago> That wasn't that long ago was it..? Last time I used a crossover cable I was still using dialup, probably about 20 years ago. Once I had DSL I also had a router, so the crossover cable became redundant.
- bombcar 2mo agoI still have a null modem adapter somewhere, and a null modem cable (and they were REAL not the "fake" ones).
- deepspace 2mo agoI have been struggling to get serial comms going with a TESmart KVM because the ethernet interface is stupid and I lost comms after a misconfiguration and there is no way to factory reset the device. That was not going any better and I ended up purchasing a null modem adapter (at an eye-wateringly high price) because of course I threw away a drawer full of serial adapters a decade ago.