What kind of cable is used to connect a router to a switch? (Home and Business Networking Support)

by nicew, Sunday, February 28, 2010, 10:34 (192 days ago)
edited by JTaylor, Monday, March 01, 2010, 15:08

Straight-through or Cross-over? :-|

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What kind of cable is used to connect a router to a switch?

by Nick Help, Sunday, February 28, 2010, 10:44 (192 days ago) @ nicew
edited by JTaylor, Monday, March 01, 2010, 15:08

Your switch is certainly auto sensing (MDI/MDIX) so a normal CAT5 patch cable is fine. If you have a x-over cable that will also work.

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by JTT, Monday, March 01, 2010, 15:11 (191 days ago) @ Nick Help

That is correct. Most data equipment today have smart ports that sense whether it is an uplink port of node port. :-)

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by nicew, Tuesday, March 02, 2010, 12:44 (190 days ago) @ JTT

Thank you!

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