router question

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Loyal Freddie
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I recently bought a wireless router, have 3 pc's to connect to em the wired way, 1 laptop wireless. Now I don't realy have a problem or anything, but to connect 2 pc's I use a cross-over UTP cable, for 1 pc I use a straight UTP cable. I don't see any difference, they all work fine. Is there a difference btw? Cuz whenever I go to LAN parties I have to bring a straight one, and the way I connected the 3 pc's before I had a router was directly from ethernet adapter to ethernet adapter using network bridges, I used cross-overs for that, straight wouldn't work.

For the router, does it matter what I use then? As both seem to work.
 

Darzil

Fledgling Freddie
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Quite a lot of modern kit autosenses the cable, and thus will be compensating for it.

Not all does, though.

Darzil
 

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