Re:USB inventor explains why the connector was not designed ...
by gruturo on Tuesday October 10, 2023 @04:37AM
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Uh? They're trivial to tell apart, just put the RJ45 jacks side by side and look at the colors of the wires going in?
Same sequence -> Straight ethernet cable
Same sequence except for 1 swapped pair -> Probably a crossover Ethernet cable
Inverted sequence -> ISDN cable, burn it.
Also (apart from the ISDN cables) - it hasn't mattered for close to quarter of a century, all switches and NICs are auto-MDI-X nowadays, why throw away the stuff.
Same sequence -> Straight ethernet cable
Same sequence except for 1 swapped pair -> Probably a crossover Ethernet cable
Inverted sequence -> ISDN cable, burn it.
Also (apart from the ISDN cables) - it hasn't mattered for close to quarter of a century, all switches and NICs are auto-MDI-X nowadays, why throw away the stuff.