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no crossover cable needed, EVER
Authored by: lowbatteries on Apr 15, '09 10:19:07AM
Crossover cables are never needed for any reason on newer Macs because the ethernet port does the crossover for you - something called Auto-MDIX.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auto-MDIX

This was one of the big things that so impressed me on my friend's Mac and got me interested in switching (no, I'm not joking). I bought a MacBook and threw away the crossover cable I always carried in my laptop bag.

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no crossover cable needed, EVER
Authored by: Zeitkind on Apr 16, '09 04:17:10AM

Well, almost _all_ newer ethernet cards do this for many years now, also almost all switches. It's not a special feature of Macs, though Apple built in quite early onboard NIC's with Auto-MDX.



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