Gigabit ethernet should work fine on regular cat5. But a regular crossover cable won't work with gigabit ethernet, due to gigabit ethernet using a different pin-out, and using all 8 wires. Most ...

A network card may have several types of connectors, with the most common being an RJ45 connector and a BNC connector (coaxial cable). In this article, we talk about the RJ45 ethernet crossover cable, ...

I needed to get some files onto a laptop without an optical drive today, so I connected it to my iBook, turned on OSX's Internet Connection Sharing and FTP, put the CD in the iBook's drive, and copied ...

Update: This How-To was written for April Fools’ Day. It is not advised you attempt to make or even use this cable. The comments have made it very clear how dangerous to you and others using this ...

Ethernet is one of the original networking technologies, having been invented 50 years ago. And yet, because of the simplicity by which the communications protocol can be deployed and its ability to ...

Update: This How-To was written for April Fools’ Day. It is not advised you attempt to make or even use this cable. The comments have made it very clear how dangerous to you and others using this ...