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   From: Ken@invalid.news.com   
      
   On Mon, 26 Dec 2022 23:10:11 GMT, scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal)   
   wrote:   
      
   >Ken Blake  writes:   
   >>On Mon, 26 Dec 2022 21:34:34 GMT, scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal)   
   >>wrote:   
   >>   
   >>>(usually) female connector.   
   >>   
   >>I thought (especially for crossover cable) that it was especially   
   >>pertinent to male connectors.   
   >>   
   >>   
   >>>Cables (with male connectors) are typically wired straight through or   
   >>>crossover (rare now).   
   >>   
   >>   
   >>Yes, I know. What I didn't know was that a crossover cable is one that   
   >>is connected 568A at one end and 568B at the other. I was asking   
   >>whether (and if so, how) I could tell whether the connections were   
   >>568A or 568B. I basically wanted to know that so I could tell whether   
   >>an old cable I might have lying around is a crossover cable.   
   >   
   >You can (a) look at the wire colors in the cable through the   
   >            transparent connector and match them to the chart, or   
   >        (b) plug the cable into a cat5 cable tester.   
      
      
   Actually, a few minutes ago, I looked the one cable that I could   
   easily find. Yes the connector was transparent and yes I could see   
   that they were the same so it wasn't a crossover cable.   
      
   But are the connectors always transparent? My memory might be wrong,   
   but I didn't think so.   
      
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