Re: networking problem

Nicholas Brenckle (nicholas.brenckle@yale.edu)
Thu, 10 Jun 1999 13:16:16 -0400

The other option is to get two (or a single dual) wall outlet and cross the
wires inside. This allows you to use reguar "straight thru" cables that usally
come free with network cards and hardware. And the pin outs are
1 - Tx+
2 - Tx-
3 - Rx+
6 - Rx-

So you want to swap the PAIRS of 1&2 with 3&6. If you get the polairty wrong
most cards will correct and just blink at you but its best to get it right.

-Nick

Ken Lai wrote:

> Being the poor student that I am (and most of us are), when I had to
> repair my phone connecter, I bought some cheap head-thingies, and didn't
> bother to get a crimper. "crimping" manually with a flat-head screw
> driver worked wonderfully (if you ignore a failed-attempt or two... those
> heads are cheap anyway).
>
> On Thu, 10 Jun 1999, Tim Lovelock wrote:
> > You can purchase a terminating crimper from a networking catalogue such as
> > black box, or I think radio shack might even have them... they're pretty
> > expensive though, around 30-40 bucks, so you might be better just buying a
> > cable.
>
> --
> # Ken Lai <min-ken.lai@yale.edu> also at ken.lai@WriteMe.com
> # http://pantheon.yale.edu/~ml267/ ICQ# 5845632

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