This feature is also only needed on one end of the connection so even devices which don't support this feature won't need a crossover cable if they are connecting to something that does have it.Įven if Auto MDI-X didn't exist, (almost) all home routers have builtin switches and that means you'd use a regular patch cable to connect to it. For the last 10-15 years practically every router, switch, hub or nic you can buy has Auto_MDI-X which eliminates the need for crossover cables entirely.
They were basically only used when creating peer-to-peer connections between just two devices or connecting anything to a router. In the early to mid 90s there was very little need for crossover cables. Doing that to both ends will result in a (nearly) standard patch cable again (of course two of the wire colors would now be swapped but the functionality would be that of a patch cable). Making a crossover cable from a patch cable is simply the act of swapping the destination of two pairs of wires in the cable. To directly answer the question asked, you only rewire one side to make a crossover cable. *where patch has one side converted to crossover. Why did it work, and why not now? The bigger question, should I have prepared both ends as a crossover? Yeah I'm a noob when it comes to hardware and networking. Connectivity, no connectivity, on and off. So a couple days later I'm having problems.
CAT 5 CROSSOVER CABLE TV
I had connection and smart tv worked (eg Netflix) with Wire Connection. So I cut the end of the patch cable that was extending my crossover cable, and prepared a crossover, crimped a new fitting and I was in business.
Nope! I thought, Hmmm it's a crossover but extended with straight through, should be okay? I guess it didn't work, no connection. so I extended it with patch cable and fem/fem connector. It's an old crossover cable I bought for my xbox.It's a 50 footer and wasn't long enough to reach my router. So in my arsenal I pulled out the longest cable I have. Buffering and signal problems just long overdue. I decided to hook up my smart tv via cat5, instead of wireless. When preparing a crossover conversion on a patch cable, do I prepare both sides or just one?
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