Post by: FreakInvasion on October 02, 2004, 02:12:00 PM
). Another reason for making your own crossover cable from a standard is that you might not have the $9.99 to get the one from radioshack. Well thats probably not the case but perhaps you dont like making unnessisary purchases . Whatever your reason/excuse is for not buying a crossover cable, this guide will help you.Supplies neaded:
Standard Cat5 cable
Cutters
Tape
Knife
First of all, lets take a look at a standard cat5 cable. There are 8 wires: green (gr), green striped (grs), blue (bl), blue striped (bls), orange (or), orange striped (ors), brown (br), and brown striped (brs). The abreviations in the parantheses are just for this tutorial to make things easier. For some reason, the blue, blue striped, brown, and brown striped arent used, but theyre still required. Weird huh?
Now to make the crossover cable. Locate on the cable about the midpoint. You're going to need to make a one-foot cut longways so that you can take off the outer casing without disturbing the colored wires inside. You will see 8 wires inside, probably woven together somehow. Locate OR, ORS, GR, and GRS. Cut these 4 wires so that you can have a little room to work with them. Now, using either wire splicers or your teeth, splice each of those 4 wires about a half an inch on each end. Now connect GRS to ORS, ORS to GRS, GR to OR, and OR to GR. Make sure you put tape around the connections so that none of the metal part of the wires are touching the metal part of the other wires. There you go! Easy, huh? Now you can wrap 8 wires in tape or something and you have yourself a homemade crossover cable
.Here are the before and after pictures:
