The RJ45 cable, also known as an Ethernet cable, is a standard cable which has four twisted pairs of colors. It is easy to crimp a RJ45 cable and make it into a straight cable or cross the cable as ...

What is a crossover cable used for? The fastest way to connect PCs together, to a router or central switch, is through Ethernet cabling, a standard that’s been in networking installation for years.

We live in an increasingly do-it-yourself world. We can check out our own groceries, pump our own gas and diagnose our own &#151 OK, maybe not that last one. But for the do-it-yourself type, making ...

I'm setting up a home office network for my brother-in-law's boss, and he has a large HP office printer that he wants to connect to the network...<BR><BR>The ideal solution (in terms of not purchasing ...

Local networks are normally created by connecting computers to a router. If you have two PCs that you want to network but no router, you can connect them using an Ethernet crossover cable or establish ...

Why Should You Make Ethernet Cables? As most of you have probably purchased an Ethernet cable at one point or another, you’ll know that one of the most annoying things about buying an Ethernet cable ...

When my son and I built my office space, we wired many RJ-45 jacks and routed them with CAT5e cable to a patch panel. Recently I moved some equipment and used the patch panel to connect it with an ...

Transferring files from your laptop to a desktop PC is simple – usually. If you are visiting a customer's or vendor's site, the IT staff will usually help you connect to their network and transfer ...

You have probably heard that a two-node LAN can be configured by stringing a crossover cable between the network ports on two systems. Not only is this true, but it’s not all that hard to do provided ...