[Tfug] Yet another poser

[johngalt1]

----- 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?