X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,3b6f5dc1d8a64cc3,start X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public From: Neil Franklin Subject: Ethernet wiring diagram Date: 1999/12/01 Message-ID: <6u3dtm8kce.fsf@chonsp.franklin.ch>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 555454491 Sender: neil@chonsp.franklin.ch X-Trace: 1 Dec 1999 21:41:01 +0100, dua131221.dialup800-stat.ethz.ch Organization: My own Private Self Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Usually posts on this group are ASCII _art_. Well I am a bad artist, so a technical drawing will have to do. The wiring of an 10/100baseT Ethernet cable: Device1 Plug1 Plug2 Device2 Ethernet 10/100baseT 1 1a. . . . . ,1a 8 1,2 computer->hub X X X......X X X 2 1b' V V V V `1b 7 3 2a-. . 6 3,6 hub->computer \ / \ / 4 3a. .\./. .\./. 5 X XXX X XXX X... 5 3b' V/V\V V/V\V 4 / \ / \ 6 2b-' V 3 7 4a. . . 2 X X X... 8 4b' V V 1 At the moment I do not like the asymetry of using 'V' and '.', but 'A' at the top looked bad and '"' at the bottom was totally wrong. Anyone some better suggestions? -- Neil Franklin, neil@franklin.ch.remove http://neil.franklin.ch/