There is a special type of Category 5, or Cat 5, cable that can be used to connect two computers without the use of a router or switch. These cables are known as crossover cables and they have ...

However, you cannot use a regular Ethernet cable -- called a straight-through or a patch cable -- to accomplish this. Instead, you need a Category 5, or CAT 5, or later crossover cable, available ...

To make your own network cables, you need some raw CAT 5, 5e, or 6 cable (a composite cable consisting of four twisted pairs of internal wires), some RJ45 connectors, and a proper crimping/wire ...

Cat5 Crossover Mod Right then all you frag artists out there… A lot of you peeps buy 2 network cards and a cable to connect 2 PC’s together. In the good ol days there was coaxial or (thin wire ...

I want to hook up my own XP PC to my work-supplied Win2K PC using a cat5 ethernet crossover cable. I would ideally like to use TCP/IP (but filesharing will do).<BR><BR>Does it make any difference ...

Gigabit ethernet should work fine on regular cat5. But a regular crossover cable won't work with gigabit ethernet, due to gigabit ethernet using a different pin-out, and using all 8 wires.

The RJ45 cable, also known as an Ethernet cable, is a standard cable which has four twisted pairs of colors. It is easy to crimp a RJ45 cable and make it into a straight cable or cross the cable as ...