XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-10, alt.home.repair
From: Ken@invalid.news.com
On Mon, 26 Dec 2022 17:12:15 -0700, Ken Blake
wrote:
>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.
My memory is apparently wrong. It just occurred to me that it would be
very easy to look at the cables coming into my router.
Yes, the ends of all four of those connectors are *all* transparent.
What must have confused me is the part of the connector next to that
end transparent part is opaque, colored the same as the cable itself.
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