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Yup ... still have some old 'xover' cables lying around - all of which are RED in colour to explicitly declare their usage
by abrookewood 1mo ago
Yup ... still have some old 'xover' cables lying around - all of which are RED in colour to explicitly declare their usage
- valleyer 1mo 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 1mo agoI seem to recall crossover cables being yellow.
- nubinetwork 1mo 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 1mo agoPurple cables are faster.
- Symbiote 1mo agoMine were mixed colours, the cable was grey but the "boot" and connector were black.
- jalk 1mo agoI had quite a few cables with a yellow crimp "jackets" just behind the RJ45. IIRC they came with DSL modems / routers
- tedeh 1mo 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 1mo 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 1mo 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 1mo 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