I want to connect my laptop with my 360 to use it as a wireless receiver. Now I'm a bit reluctant to use a normal ehternet cable for that seeing as a friend of mine told me he blew up his ethernet connector with this.
So is it safe to try this with a normal ethernet cable?
Thanks in advance!
It depends on how old your laptop is. Most newer computers are able to automatically switch from regular to crossover when using a standard cable.
it's a vaio pcg 4v1m
Sorry after googling it I couldn't find how old it is. If it was made within the last couple years you should be fine. And I seriously doubt your friend fried his Ethernet port that way. If the computer didn't like it, it would just say no instead of committing suicide.
You shouldn't have a problem, basically anything even remotely modern with ethernet will just automatically detect and utilize a crossover or straight through. Even if it didn't I don't think it would damage the hardware in any way, the only time I've heard of ethernet damaging hardware is if its a custom cable that wasn't made correctly.
oh ok, I'll try it tommorow morning.
It's a new model of laptop, from around half last year, the only thing I'm worried about is that it's a mini laptop
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Most devices are auto sensing.
[QUOTE=BlackBirdNL;24649337]Now I'm a bit reluctant to use a normal ehternet cable for that seeing as a friend of mine told me he blew up his ethernet connector with this.
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Your friend did something HORRIBLY wrong. The worst thats going to happen is no connection. IIRC, Cat5 and 5e still require crossover cables to talk. This requires repinning or buying a cable. If you're in chicago, I'll even give you one. I got more xovers and USB nics than I know what to do with them.
[QUOTE=usocrazy;24667181]Most devices are auto sensing.[/QUOTE]
He is talking about communication, not on the bandwidth they communicate with.
IE: Crossover, not 100BASE-T
Even a cat5 cable that is done horribly wrong will not damage the hardware. It just wouldn't make any sense even if two or more wires were shorted out. Tell your friend that he doesn't know what he's talking about.
You might as well try it out with the straight through, in the modern time a lot of the time the need for crossovers isn't needed because the issue can be fixed by through the software (or firmware). It's called auto-MDIX.
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