Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 27 Dec 2002 04:45:06 -0500 | From | daveman@bellatla ... | Subject | Re: OT: Which Gigabit ethernet card? |
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On Wed, Dec 25, 2002 at 05:33:47PM +0000, Sean Neakums wrote: > 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. Well, if all else fails, you could always pick up a cable tester. They can tell you lots of nifty stuff, like data transfer quality as well as pinout. Good for the less obvious cable problems, like a broken strand.
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