Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: OT: Which Gigabit ethernet card? | From | Sean Neakums <> | Date | Wed, 25 Dec 2002 17:33:47 +0000 |
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commence Jeff Garzik quotation:
> On Wed, Dec 25, 2002 at 11:23:25PM +0800, Michael Clark wrote: >> Or take a two second look holding both RJ45 connectors next to each other >> connector side up. If the colours are in the same order on both - it's >> straight through. First and third are swapped - it's a crossover cable. >> >> Once you learn this simple trick, you'll never have a problem again - >> just get used to spending the extra two seconds before using the cable. > > Works great for people without color-blindness...
Depends on the type of colour-blindness, I suppose. The colours used in Cat-V are green, orange, blue and brown, from what I recall. I forget the various types of colour-blindness that exist.
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