straight and crossover cable connections what is their difference?
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On a CAT 5e patch cable, the wiring configuration is identical on both ends of the cable. \n\nOn a CAT 5e crossover cable, the wiring of pins 1, 2, 3, and 6 are "crossed-over" to pins 3, 6, 1, and 2.
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just go to the nearest computer store or Radio Shack and ask for crossover cable to connect to computers together, Thay'll know what you talkin about. You don't need to spend alot for a brand-name like Belkin. Also, it's are pretty easy to make it yourself.
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you have to use 2 pairs :- 1) green and 2) orange\nRJ-45 configuartion\n    one-end of RJ45  and other end is also same of straight cable.                               \n1.orange-white                                         \n2.orange                                                    \n3.green-white\n4.blue\n5.blue-white\n6.green\n7.browan-white\n8.brown\nyou can simple connect straight cables(patch cords) from hub to all computers lan card. link will be up and you can setup ip addressing and share your data.
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Yes. Cable select simply means that rather than having to re-jumper everytime you change the drives in your system, which connector on the IDE cable the drive is plugged into determines if it is a master or a slave. Generally, it is a good idea to set both to cable select, and specifically jumper to master and slave if you are having trouble.
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Cheapest: Buy a crossover cable and plug it into both PC's.\n\nBest: Buy a switch and two Cat5 cables. Connect each PC to the switch.
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where you connect the cable to the computers you should see a light - if that light is not lit you may have the wrong type of cable.\n\n(There are two types of cable: cross over and straight through)\n\nYou specifically need a cross over cable to connect twop computers together directly.\n\n\nFor steps with windows XP: you'll find this site has the answer you need: http://www.geekgirls.com/windowsxp_home_network.htm
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You said the cable is not the problem, maybe because you know it is a good cable when linking a PC to a switch, router or some other device.  But I think the cable is exactly what is wrong here, because it is probably a straight through cable.  To link two computers "back-to-back" you need to use a crossover cable.  \n\nIf you link two computers with a straight through (ordinary) patch cable, then you are connecting transmit to transmit, and receive to receive.  The crossover cable will make sure that transmit pins on each computer talks to receive pins on the other computer.  If you look through the clear plastic RJ-45 plugs on each end of the cable, you will usually see colored wires inside.  If you see the same color pattern on both ends it is straight-through.  This will work to connect a computer to a switch or router, but not two computers to each other.  If you see a different pattern on each end (pins 1 and 2 will be swapped with pins 3 and 6) then it's a crossover.\n\nIf all you need to do is link these two computers and nothing else down the road, buy a crossover cable.  If you might have other computers or components connected in the future, spend a few extra dollars and buy yourself a basic switch or router, like the Linksys EZXS55W workgroup switch.
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Here are the different types of cabling and the maximum distance they can run:  \n\nUse a 10Base5 Thick Coaxial 500 meters\n  \n10BaseT Unshielded Twisted Pair 100 meters\n10Base2 Thin Coaxial 185 meters\n10Base5 Thick Coaxial 500 meters\n10BaseF Fiber Optic 2000 meters\n100BaseT Unshielded Twisted Pair 100 meters\n100BaseTX Unshielded Twisted Pair 220 meters
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Yes you can, either buy a cross over cable, or make one!\n\nThe cheapest way and, not always the most appealing method\n\nClip the following wires in half.\n\nSolid green\nSolid orange\nWhite with green stripe\nWhite with orange stripe\n\nNow cross these wires as follows:\n\nSolid green on end one crosses with solid orange on end two.\nSolid orange on end one crosses with solid green on end two.\n\nWhite with green stripe on end one crosses with white with orange stripe on end two\n\nWhite with orange stripe on end one crosses with white with green stripe on end two.\n\nYou can use this method to splice the wires instead of getting a crimper, but it is advised to solder the wires together, and cover well with electrical tape, or shrink-wrap.\n\nThis is a bit ghetto, but informative I suppose.\n\nRun the Internet connection sharing wizard in windows.\n\nDo keep in mind that unless you use the USB cable supplied with your modem "I do not recommend" you will need two Ethernet cards in the PC connected to the modem.\n\nOne for connecting to the modem and  one to connect to the other computer.\n\nMyself I prefer using a router, ICS is just not reliable enough for me!
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(m)\n\nIn large computers, neutral to ground voltages are originated because nonlinear currents flow through the neutral wire. In general always when there is some current flowing in neutral wire, there will be a ground ot neutral wire voltage difference on output end, because there is no current flowing on ground wire. In some computer systems the voltage differences are considered to be problem, because it has been reported to cause cause improper behaviour like "hangouts" on some computer systems. \n\nIt is true that in some special cases neutral to ground voltages can cause this kidn of problems, but in those cases it is not to blame the separate wires, because the problem lies in some other place. In properly built electrical wirign network, the neutral to ground voltage differences will never be more than few volts and any properly designed electrical equipment should not be disturbed of this kind of small voltage differences. \n\nIf the equipment gets disturbed of this small main frequency voltage, claim the manufacturer/designer of that particular equipment for doing bad job. Computer equipments can be easily deigned to cope few volts of voltage differences between neutral and ground. Most of the modern euquipments are designed to cope this. \n\nIf the voltage difference between your neutral and ground is much larger than few volts or there is very good propability that there is somethign wrong on you main wiring. So it is best that an electrician goes and checks your wiring before more problem and damages happen. \n\nIn some cases the neutral actual to ground voltage is not the problem, but the wavefor of the voltage. Non-linear loads like computer power supplies and light dimmers can cause some considerable noise between neutral and ground. Such noise can be more problematic than just a simple voltage difference, but equipment should still be able to cope quite fair amount of it (EMC regulations etc.). If you have considerable amounts of noise on neutral wire used by nonlinear loads, then you can again blaim the improper design of the electrical wiring. This kind of problems can be solved by good wiring design practices: separate electrical wiring from main panel/transformer to the equipments which cause noisen and to equipments which are sensitive to it. This is good practice and keep problems away. \n\nIf you would have on those cases had a wiring with common neutral and ground wire, you would have terrible ground potential diffeences between different outlets. In cases were ther problems neutral to ground voltage differences in separate ground and neutral wire wiring start cause problem, a wiring with common ground+neutral wire there would be so much ground potential differences between outlets that any equipments connected to different electrical outlets and interconnected would work very erratically, you would propably cause many equipment damages. Computer sustems are generally much more sensitive to the ground potential differences than ground to neutral differences. \n\nThe bottom line is that separate ground and neutral wire is a good thing for many problems. It solves more problems that what it potentially causes. And in wery rare situations where separate ground and neutral wires cause some problems, in those same situations a wiring with connon neutral+ground wire would have caused much more but different kind of problems in form of ground potential differences. When taking account situation where computers are interconnected/networked, a good stable ground potential for aal equipment is much more important than very small neutral to ground potential. Separate ground and neutral wires is a good method to keep the outlet grounds at same potential, which is very important in networked computer systems.
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Well either way you are sharing the same line so what do you mean? Get a 2nd line. I don't think you'll get to much problem sharing the line with that setup though. Depending on what you are doing.
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No.  The two operate on different frequencies within the "cable" and do not interfer with each other.  Plus, even if you do not have the cable TV picture turned on to your house, the signal is still traveling through the cable itself, going to your nieghbors, etc.  It is just blocked before it enters your home.
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there is no disadvantage\nthere is advantage\ntwisted pair cabling is a common form of wiring in which two conductors are wound around each other for the purposes of canceling out electromagnetic interference which can cause crosstalk. The number of twists per meter makes up part of the specification for a given type of cable. The greater the number of twists, the more crosstalk is reduced. Twisting wires decreases interference
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If you are just wanting to connect the two, that's one thing - use the crossover cable.  If you want them connected AND to share an internet connection, it's easier to go with the router.
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You can use a crossover cat 5 cable.
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I am typing this answer on a computer connected with a cat-5 cable to a LAN. You need to explain what "climping" is and what you are trying to do before anyone can help you with your problem.
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Why not use a crossover UTP network cable? It's the cheapest way to connect two PC's, and it also has the best transfer speed.