XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-10, alt.home.repair   
   From: Ken@invalid.news.com   
      
   On Tue, 27 Dec 2022 17:10:44 -0500, micky    
   wrote:   
      
   >In alt.home.repair, on Mon, 26 Dec 2022 15:15:55 -0700, Ken Blake   
   > wrote:   
   >   
   >>   
   >>>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 don't have to know which format they are to know if they are   
   >crossover.   Hold both ends next to each other and see if the colors are   
   >in the same order.  If they're not, it's crossover.  If they are, it's   
   >not.    
      
   Yes, as others have said. Thanks. I hadn't realized they were   
   transparent.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)