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A straight cable is used to connect a PC to a hub, switch, or router.
How can I configure straight through cable?
A straight-through ethernet cable.
A crossover cable is used when connecting 2 computers together and a straight cable is used to connect a computer to a networking device like a network switch or router. This has to do with the send/receive pins of the cords, obviously when you need to connect 2 computers together you dont want them to be both sending through the same pin, so they are swapped so that what one computer sends comes through the receive port of the other computer. Networking devices dont need this as they are designed to work with straight cables.
Crossover
1) You purchase the cable 2) You plug it into the network adapter (network card). If the cable directly connects two computers, you need a crossover cable; if the computers are connected via a switch (this lets you connect more than two computers), you need a straight cable. Make sure to measure how much cable you need, and to purchase some extra length, to let you move the computers around freely.
To connect a PC to a switch you should use a straight through UTP cable.
Straight through ethernet cable (CAT 5/5e/6)
straight-through cable
Is a crossover cable needed to connect Host computers to the switch? Why or why not?
what is different between cross cabling and straight cabling ANSWER: a crossover cable is used to connect like devices, like a router to a router, but a straight through cable is used to connect dissimilar devices, like a router to a computer.
You need a straight-through cable