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[Frank Bax]

At 01:00 PM 12/10/04, Frank Bax wrote:
>At 12:45 PM 12/10/04, Ed Hurst wrote:
>> > A crossover cable would skip the switch. Would that help?
>>
>>Don't even know what that is. I tried connecting directly between the
>>two NICs and got even worse results. I also tried three different brands
>>of ether cards (someone sent me a mixed 10-pack).
>
>
>If you look *very* closely inside the plastic connectors on your network 
>wires you should see one these two colour patterns: T568A or T568B - these 
>are the two "standards" for CAT5 cable.  When a cable uses T568A at one 
>end and T568B at the other end, then it is a "crossover" cable which means 
>1x6 and 2x3 send/receive wires are crossed - send at one end is connected 
>to receive at the other, instead of "straight through" cable - which is 
>used in most cases.


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