What is a crossover cable?

A crossover cable is a segment of Category 5 cable that crosses over pins 1&2 and 3&6. This cable is normally used to connect two PCs without the use of a hub, or can be used to cascade two hubs without using an uplink port.


example of Cross Over using international colour coding



example of straight Vs. Cross Over using other colour coding. It does the same thing as the peer numbers match back


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