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Turning a crossover cable into a straight through cable
Posted by Larry Roberts on February 14th, 2005


I have a 100ft crossover cable that I want to tun into a
straight through cable. Could I just buy another 3ft crossover cable,
and a connection adaptor to hook them together to turn it into a
straight through? I once did this using a 50ft straight through cable,
and a 3ft crossover cable to turn it into a crossover.

Posted by CJT on February 14th, 2005


Larry Roberts wrote:
Yep.

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Posted by Yousuf Khan on February 15th, 2005


Larry Roberts wrote:
It should work. Though with such long cabling, and the extra junctioning
in between, there's no guarantee about signal integrity.

Yousuf Khan

Posted by CJT on February 15th, 2005


Yousuf Khan wrote:
100 feet is well within spec.

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Posted by bensmyth on February 15th, 2005


I think its 100m max?


Ben



Posted by bensmyth on February 15th, 2005


You could always cut the cable and crimp a new connector on the end?

(although you'd need tools to do this!)


Regards,

Ben



Posted by CJT on February 15th, 2005


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Posted by Larry Roberts on February 17th, 2005


On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 10:41:49 -0000, "bensmyth" <noreply@test.com>
wrote:

Yeah, but I don't have those tools, and I'm not sure how to do
it. The last time I called around town at the local PC shops, and
asked how much they'd charge to do it for me, they quoted me the
minimum rate (almost $30.00 an hour) to do it. I think the junction,
and 3ft crossover extension will do fine.

Posted by CJT on February 18th, 2005


Larry Roberts wrote:
That might have been ok if they'd been honest and only charged you
the (under) 3 minutes it would take somebody with the right tools
to do the job. <g>

I think the junction,
So do I.

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