When is a straight through cable used and when is a crossover cable used?

Answer 1

You need a crossover cable you want to connect two computers without a switch. If you want to use more than two computers (with switch) you have to use a straight pair cable. ---- Ethernet (up to 100 Mbit) communicates on four of the eight wires available. Two of the wires are used to transmit data, and two are to receive. Wires 1 and 2 transmit while wires 3 and 6 receive. With this in mind, on a straight through cable the wires are in the same position on both ends of the cable. On a crossover cable the wire that is in position one connects to position three on the other side, and the wire in position two connects to position six on the other end. Straight Cross 1---------------1 1------------3 2---------------2 2------------6 3---------------3 3------------1 6----------------6 6-------------2

Answer 2

A patch cable is a network cable that is used to connect a PC to a hub, switch, or router. A crossover cable is used to connector two PCs into the simplest network possible.but on the other side cross cable is just different then patch and used to connect different devices.

Answer 3

Technically:

A straight-through cable is used when connecting a computer to an external device, such as a switch or router.

A cross-over cable is used where you are connecting a device directly to another device. Such as a computer to a computer, a router to a router.

Finally, one you didn't mention but I thought you should know about, is the Rollover cable. This is also known as a "Console" cable and is used to manage a network interface, most commonly on high end (Cisco, etc.) routers, switches and firewalls.

In reality:

Cross-over [UTP] cables are used for everything except console cables. This is to eliminate crosstalk.

Answer 4

First of all, look up some diagrams. They are wired differently. A straight through cable has the same sequence of wires at either end and connects two unlike nodes; for instance, your computer and your router, or your computer and the wall jack. A crossover connects two like nodes: two routers, for example. The transmission between two like nodes is different, requiring a different cable (the corossover).

Answer 5

we use cross over cable for connecting the same device such as computer and computer, computer and router, etc. straight through is use for connecting different device such as computer and switch, router and switch, etc.

Answer 6

The crossover cable is used to connect two computers. The straight cable is used to connect computer to a switch.

Answer 7

Straight Cable Is used to connect two different peripherals such as switch or PC & Crossover Cable is used to connect two same devices such as PC-PC or switch-switch.