Making a Crossover Cable from Scratch

[videoman3857]

This was informative- thanks.

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[brawdy2008]

you can also connect your laptop to your xbox360 to xbox live or what ever game system you have by making one of these. thanks for the video. you get straight to the point and not like other videos that take 10 minutes for a 10 second explanation.

[pf126p]

What are "woyers?"

[CiphersSon]

best buy can go to beep they are the wrost beeping beepady store on planet bleepn earth!

[penguinistas]

Hi Shawn, you might want to add a blurb about what a cross over cable is used for. I had a class in networking and even I can't remember (I get it confused with a rollover cable). We had to make cables too but your's went much faster than ours went. The last word from the instructor was "don't take the job away from some guy in China making a dollar a day, go buy a cross over cable at the store".

[THEiBRO]

what is a crossover cable do?

[librano]

it is used to connect 2 machines to each other directly... without a router or switch. ie. ethernet card > ethernet card... as opposed to ethernet card > router > ethernet card.

[trunkboy]

Yes, it's for connecting two devices without a switch/hub between them. That tinyurl link in the video will take you to the wikipedia page on the subject. (Also, with gigabit ethernet, auto sensing tx/rx is in the spec -- so no more need for this type of cable...)

[ikemkrueger]

Direct connect two pcs.

[axel1973w]

Usualy you use a normal "cat5 twisted pair patch cable" to connect a End-Device like a PC or printer to a HUB or a SWITCH. Thats the most common way you use a normal TP Patch cable. BUT SOMETIMES youll like to connect two computers directly together over ethernet, like your notebook and your main pc. or a network printer direct to your puter and so on. in those special cases you cannot use a normal patch cable. youll then need a "cross over ethernet cable" where the send/receive pins are swaped

[axel1973w]

BTW: that was a common problem so about 10 years ago. in the meantime "HUBS" are NO MORE. SWITCHES and even NETWORK CARDS (NICs) often support Auto X (auto crossing TX/RX) which "sense" what type of cable you plugged in and IF needed they do cross the rx/tx pins "internaly" by themselfs. So todays the need of a cross over cable is pretty rare, id say.

[B4H0]

it connects 2 computer without a switch or hub

[mmmikeey]

man, you need a pair of wire strippers dude.

[trunkboy]

I'd claim it was for humorous effect -- but sadly that wasn't the case. :D