Straight-through Cables
- Connect dislike devices together
- T568A/T568B
- Refers to the order of the wires
- Which wire goes to which location
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Crossover Cables
- Transmit and receive pins swapped
- Connect like devices together
- PC to PC
- printer to printer
- Switch is what responsible for crossing things together
- Now there is a feature called Auto MDI X
- Detects the media and translates from Transmit to Receive if it needs to.
- Capability of the Network Card itself and some switches too
- TX/RX are reversed
- MDI, MDI-X, Auto MDI
- Detect media
- You can leverage the switches positives and negatives and then you do not need to even take out the cable.
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