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In general, no, you would not use a cross-over cable to connect a hub/switch/router to a PC. This is because the device itself has cross-over circuitry built into it, and if you used a cross-over cable you would be reversing that process.

The net effect is that the transmit signal would connect to another transmit signal, when it should be connected to a receive signal.

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