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I believe a lot of NIC's could autodetect and adapt to the cable? I'm pretty sure I had 2 computers connected to each other using a regular network cable.
by dcl 18d ago
I believe a lot of NIC's could autodetect and adapt to the cable? I'm pretty sure I had 2 computers connected to each other using a regular network cable.
- nom 18d agoYeah it died out because the hardware advanced and could just switch automatically. With 1gig Ethernet it became a requirement, the definite end of existence for crossover cables.
- minetest2048 18d agoNot just a requirement, 1gig ethernet transmit and receive at all of those 4 pairs simultaneously to get the throughput