HI,
what the difference between Crossover cable and cat-5 cable(the one I am
using right now for my cable modem to connect to pc nic card)?

I want to make a peer to peer network between my two computers. I have tried
my broadband cable moden cable but it is not working.

I have tried Direct cable connection but the speed is very slow for
transferring 8GB data.
any suggestions?
thnaks

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On Sat, 20 Sep 2003 09:13:01 +0100, "MeAgain" wrote:

Not the diference you mean. (I think)

A crossover cable has 2 pairs of wires swapped at one end pin 1 -> 3
and pin 2 -> 6.
http://www.duxcw.com/digest/Howto/ne...ble/cable5.htm

Cat5 is an electrical/physical specification of the cable, not the
pin connections

Crossover and patch (straight through) leads are both made from Cat5
(5e/6 or earlier ) cable etc.

That's most likely a patch lead.

Between 2 similar devices you need a crossover lead. If you do this 1
PC has to have 2 network cards, 1 to the other PC and 1 to the cable
modem so both have Internet access and some sort of connection
sharing software,

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Me

A crossover cable is only needed from ethernet card to ethernet card. If you
are connecting to a switch, hub, modem or router a straight cable is all
that is necessary. The crossover is done internally on these devices.

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A cross-cable is used for a peer to peer connection. This means that the
two computers are connected back to back directly. The standard cable is a
patch cable that is wired one to one. The pin out configuration of the cable
connections are not the same as a telephone cable, and is not compatible.

If you are using a hub or router, you must use a patch cable. If you are
not using a hub, and only have two computers connected back to back, then
you must use a cross-cable.

If you look in the help "F1" for Windows, there is some simple information
about how to set up a simple network, and or put two computers back to back
with an Ethernet hook-up.

You can do a search on the net for basic networking, and I am sure you will
come up with something. Most any of the computer sales places should be
able to tell you how to set up a simple peer to peer session.

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HI,
what the difference between Crossover cable and cat-5 cable(the one I am
using right now for my cable modem to connect to pc nic card)?

I want to make a peer to peer network between my two computers. I have tried
my broadband cable moden cable but it is not working.

I have tried Direct cable connection but the speed is very slow for
transferring 8GB data.
any suggestions?
thnaks

thanks for you all.
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