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				@swolebrothers pretty useful. I remember using one. Me and my sibling were playing games across one of these without the need of a switch in between, was pretty nice
 
 These cables usually are marked in a specific way, so you would know that it is a crossover cable tho. In our case it had a red shrink tube close to the connectors and crossover cable written on the insulation.
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				@thebiochemic I still have a few laying around in a box somewhere.
 
 We just did little adhoc networks to move data or play vidja games with them.
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				@mansur85 yes and I'm color blind as F. Making those connectors made me crazy. That's what happened
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				 Jedidja9332y@myss I did! and the former cables that were wired in that plug board were also B. Jedidja9332y@myss I did! and the former cables that were wired in that plug board were also B.
 but now the elechicken installed new cables and wired all new sockets in A
 
 which I only realized when I had all done and wanted to verify the locations were labeled right
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				 Jedidja9332y@swolebrothers would only be a crossover of 1 2 with 3 6 i.e. the oranges and greens Jedidja9332y@swolebrothers would only be a crossover of 1 2 with 3 6 i.e. the oranges and greens
 And I pressume we wanna use all pairs if we paid for them
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today I learned that there are actually two ways how you can wire a RJ45 socket (wifi cable)
today was also a longer day than planned ...
rant
t-568b vs t-568a
fml