[Tfug] Yet another poser

[Chris Martin]

johngalt1 wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Chris Martin" <>
> To: "Tucson Free Unix Group" <tfug at tfug.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2007 4:20 PM
> Subject: Re: [Tfug] Yet another poser
>
>
>   
>> Bexley Hall wrote:
>>     
>>> It's a cakewalk to turn one of these "RJ45 widgets"
>>> into a "crossover" widget.  I.e. swap pins 1&3
>>> and 2&6, then glue the thing back together.
>>>
>>>
>>>       
>>    I have a commercially produced widget of exactly this 
>> variety. I
>> tacked it onto an order I was placing at tigerdirect (I 
>> know, not the
>> best place, but it was the only place I could find what I 
>> was looking
>> for). I don't even remember what my primary order was, but 
>> I happened to
>> notice the crossover adapter and thought "wow, that might 
>> just come in
>> handy someday" so I bought it (it has, often enough that 
>> it has a
>> permanent home in my bag).
>>    Anyway, it happens to have a clear male connector (the 
>> female side
>> is encased entirely in orange plastic) and from what I can 
>> see the male
>> connector is rotated 180 degrees relative to the female 
>> connector (thus
>> reversing the pin order entirely. I'm not sure if that's 
>> normal or not;
>> I've never actually looked closely enough at cat-5 or 
>> assembled my own,
>> but it seems to me that it would be essential for a normal 
>> ethernet
>> cable to have the ends oriented thusly). Most of the wires 
>> (all 4 pairs
>> of which are present) appear to go straight through.
>>     
>
>
>
> http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=1003995&CatId=3
>
> IS this it? 
>
>   
That link just took me to the "cables" category on TD. I tried a search 
for it, but no dice.
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