network cable

[sandman2866]

I was wondering if I cut one cable at the ends and solder tie the wires together and everything to another cable will it work if somone could test this for it would be greatly apprrieated id do it but I have no wire to spare if it doesnt work cause I need a bigger cable and im to cheap to go out and buy one big one hte only reason I ask is cause my idoit dad said it wouldnt work but he doesnt know anything about anythng but I just wanna make sure

[vb_master]

I was wondering if I cut one cable at the ends and solder tie the wires together and everything to another cable will it work if somone could test this for it would be greatly apprrieated id do it but I have no wire to spare if it doesnt work cause I need a bigger cable and im to cheap to go out and buy one big one hte only reason I ask is cause my idoit dad said it wouldnt work but he doesnt know anything about anythng but I just wanna make sure

Yeah, you just extending it. You dad is dumb.

[atari2600a]

There's no circuitry or resistors or diodes or anything an an Ethernet cable, so yeah, it should work flawlessly! (Though if you want to keep a perfectly good cable, you could go out & buy some connectors )

[vb_master]

There's no circuitry or resistors or diodes or anything an an Ethernet cable, so yeah, it should work flawlessly! (Though if you want to keep a perfectly good cable, you could go out & buy some connectors )

In fact, I made a crossover cable like this.

[atari2600a]

Hm, maybe Ben should've used Ethernet ports on the VCSp's he made w/ the Link-cable-feature-thing!

[timmeh87]

i found 100 feet of cable for $30 canadian at the university bookstore. places like futureshop overcharge you way bad on that kind of stuff (like $80 for the same thing!). look around at smaller comptuer + electronics stores and you might find some cheap cable.

but otherwise, yes that would work. i think the green/green-white and orage/orange-white pairs are the only ones you need.

[CronoTriggerfan]

There's no circuitry or resistors or diodes or anything an an Ethernet cable, so yeah, it should work flawlessly! (Though if you want to keep a perfectly good cable, you could go out & buy some connectors )

Well, that's kind of wrong; most Ethernet cables are equipped with an LED, (light-emitting DIODE [diode being the key word there]) so that deduction is false. Although you are right about it working; it's just a simple extention, so no harm done.

CTFan

[bicostp]

There's no circuitry or resistors or diodes or anything an an Ethernet cable, so yeah, it should work flawlessly! (Though if you want to keep a perfectly good cable, you could go out & buy some connectors )

Well, that's kind of wrong; most Ethernet cables are equipped with an LED, (light-emitting DIODE [diode being the key word there]) so that deduction is false. Although you are right about it working; it's just a simple extention, so no harm done.

CTFan

Well, the silly fancy ones they sell at CompUSA and Best Buy as "ZoMG Kewl Kabulz!!!1" do. The majority of ethernet wires are just patch wires that go from one end to the other uninterrupted. Believe me I've made enough of these to know.

It's not a good idea to cut and splice 2 existing ethernet cables together. The wires inside are twisted in pairs, so you don't get interference between the send and recieve wires. When you cut and splice the wires, this impedance is gone and you may have more errors and slower transfer speeds with that cable.

It's a better idea to buy a spool of Cat5e wire and some RJ45 connectors and make your own. It will be cleaner, longer and less susceptible to interference. (you could put one connector at one end of the spool and one at the other and it should still work. I think the maximum length of wire between amplifying devices (hubs, switches, PCs) is something like 300 feet, though this may have changed between 100base TX and gigabit.

[forrest]

There's a simpler method - use an RJ45 coupler to connect two ethernet cables together. Or just buy a longer cable. www.monoprice.com has RJ45 coupler's for $.49 and a 25 foot Category 5E ethernet cable will run you $3.72