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soundworlds 3 hours ago

That wasn't that long ago was it..?

/looks longingly out the window, and catch my aging face in the reflection

abrookewood 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Yup ... still have some old 'xover' cables lying around - all of which are RED in colour to explicitly declare their usage

valleyer 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Interesting. I don't remember my crossover cables being marked that way; you had to read the dot-matrix printing along the side to know. Color would have been way more handy.

zeristor 4 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

I seem to recall crossover cables being yellow.

rmunn an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I added labels (just a piece of paper under some clear tape) saying "CROSSOVER" at both ends of the cables, so that if I ever plugged a crossover cable into a place where I needed a straight-through, the label would be right there next to the plug.

tedeh 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Well I have to add that was interesting too. Because I remember you had to hold the ends up next to each other and compare the order of the colored wires. Same order left-to-right, not cross-over. Anything else, cross-over.

jalk 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I had quite a few cables with a yellow crimp "jackets" just behind the RJ45. IIRC they came with DSL modems / routers