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Cross over?

Son of Blam · 2003-01-24 21:08:17

Silly question, actually it's not really a question, more of an observation. If I had two PCs with network cards and no hub, and I wanted to network them together, I'd need a cross over cable. Right? I recently plugged connected my iBook to my PC (Win2k) with a standard non cross over cat5 and the iBook could see the PC…

24-01-2003 10:08pm

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Son of Blam

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Silly question, actually it's not really a question, more of an observation.

If I had two PCs with network cards and no hub, and I wanted to network them together, I'd need a cross over cable. Right?

I recently plugged connected my iBook to my PC (Win2k) with a standard non cross over cat5 and the iBook could see the PC and vice versa. Anybody else every try this?

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#2 24-01-2003 10:33pm

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All Macs these days come with auto-sensing Ethernet, so there is never any need to use a crossover cable with them.

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