OT: cat 5 cable, ethernet, connection jacks

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 10:22:20PM -0500, James Knott wrote:
> According to what I read, Gigabit can handle either cable type.

Well not from what I read.  At least you must have 4 wire pais intact
for gigabit to work, and many crossover ethernet only have two pairs
connected at all.

Lennart Sorensen
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