Ok so you've gone out and brought a 5m cable and two cards but then someone
tells you that you need a crossover cable? What's that? Well a crossover
cable has a different termination on one end of the plug which means the
wires are in a different sequence I wont go in to too much detail but
basically in a crossover cable data is sent and received on different pairs
or strands on the cable.imagine to people on a walkie talkie talking at the
same time they would miss each other right then crossover cables are usually
used in the industry to connect to active machines together.for example two
network switches or two hubs. What if later on you want to build a small
network of more than two machines and you got this small crossover lead that
will go to waste. I will show you how to make a crossover adapter, which you
can put on the end of a straight through cable and change it into a
Crossover cable
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