Will a 60-foot run of CAT-5 ethernet cable work?

[James Knott]

D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
> I thought crossover cables were essentially dead:
>
> - they don't always work with modern handshaking (I've been told this
>    but don't know what it means)
>    
They are still used.  While many switches can auto detect the 
connection, not all can.  The switch is supposed to determine whether 
the connected device is a computer or another switch and connect 
accordingly.  All a crossover will do is make one look like the other.

> - having two types of cable that look the same is confusing and leads
>    to yet another networking problem to be debugged.  Or maybe it is
>    just me.
Normally, there'd be some sort of marker or tag on the cable.  I try to 
buy them in different colours from straight through cables.

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