Actually if you have a cheap ethernet cable you can modify it yourself.
There are two twisted pairs of wire in it.
Strip the outer sleeving back.
Cut the cable in half. Now strip and twist the wires togther from the one pair to the other pair. Tape up the wires (scocth, masking, whatever) so the wires cant short. You now have a cross over cable. If you ever need a straight through again just pull off the tape and reverse the pairs again.
I have several cables like this in use in my network. They use the ethernet jacks on one end and phone jacks on the other end at work. They throw hundreds of these cables away every year so I started pulling them out of the trash, cutting the phone plug ends off and making my own ethernet cables.
(Yes, I'm cheap, but I prefer to think of it as environmentally responsible.)
There are two twisted pairs of wire in it.
Strip the outer sleeving back.
Cut the cable in half. Now strip and twist the wires togther from the one pair to the other pair. Tape up the wires (scocth, masking, whatever) so the wires cant short. You now have a cross over cable. If you ever need a straight through again just pull off the tape and reverse the pairs again.
I have several cables like this in use in my network. They use the ethernet jacks on one end and phone jacks on the other end at work. They throw hundreds of these cables away every year so I started pulling them out of the trash, cutting the phone plug ends off and making my own ethernet cables.
(Yes, I'm cheap, but I prefer to think of it as environmentally responsible.)
