Belkin Cat5e Network Crossover Patch Cable 30m

You should use a standard cable rather than a crossover. The crossover may work if your router has 'smart' ports but it's not something you should take for granted as most of them don't.
 
Standard or corssover both can be converted to the other kind with simple cheap adapters if you have too.


Normally a standard ie non crossover cable would be the thing to have for oruter to PC as noted already.
 
errata said:
Standard or corssover both can be converted to the other kind with simple cheap adapters if you have too.


Normally a standard ie non crossover cable would be the thing to have for oruter to PC as noted already.
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or you can sit and rearange all the little cables like me and my mate done once so we could get some LAN gaming on the go, i dont recommend it though
 
fluff said:
By standard he means patch :)
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no, by standard he means a straight-through cable. The 'patch' term just means its a cable for non-perminant use, usualy a cable of small length, unlike a permenant network cable which runs through walls.
 
when i said permenant cable that goes through the walls, i ment it done properly, so instead of just having a cabled going from a pc, through the wals, to a router in another room, you would have permenant cables throughout the house, going to face plates in the walls, much like electrical wiring going to a wall socket. then you would use a patch cable from pc to the wall socket, which would connect it to the permenant network wiring in the house. then at another point in the house, you would connect the router/pc/switch/whatever to another faceplate with a patch cable.
 
I did actually mean 'patch'. Although I agree a permanent installation using solid core cable is preferable, I doubt the OP (or his parents!) would consider it appropriate.
 
the point i was trying to make is that 'standard' cable means straight-through cable, Saying 'standard' means 'patch' doesn't realy make much sense when you can get straight-through patch cables and crossover patch cables'. The whole thing about solid core wiring and such was just to try and clear up what a 'patch' cable is, i wasn't suggesting that the OP should consider using solid core wiring.
 
Although you're right technically, you're not in terms of common parlance. If you have a look at OcUK's network cables they're described as 'patch' and 'crossover patch'. Other suppliers simply use 'cable' and 'crossover cable'. You mustn't let pedantry obscure the meaning for those less enlightened than ourselves. ;)
 
sorry, i didnt know what OCUK names their cables, all in know is the other places i buy computer stuff from thats cheaper then OCUK or items that OCUK doesnt have, usualy call it crossover patch, or straight-through patch, just so there can be no mistake.

Anyway, cable type doesnt realy matter these days, i dont know of a modern router that doesnt auto sense ports and adjust accordingly.
 
i was about to post a new thread but i saw this, i need 15/20m of network cable to connect my main pc to a linksys wrt300n V3 cable router (draft N linksys router . i was going to get normal cable but OCUK dont do the right lenth so should i be ok using corssover ? plus i tend to use the port on my surge proector will it matter if have crossover to that then normal from the surge proector to pc ? its a APC Performance SurgeArrest model (8plugs , network, phoneline , tv) i need to be ording some tommor with some ram for a new build , thanks guys and gals
 
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