Crossover cable orientation

[Dickydongle]

I want to connect two PC's together. They have LAN adaptor cards and I have just bought a crossover cable off Ebay.

The cable has one blue connector and one grey connector. Before I spend a day running the cable under floorboards etc, can somebody tell me if this cable needs to go a certain way round, ie which computer does the blue connector plug into? :dizzy:

[uripyores]

They should be both the same at either end.[like this]


http://www.makeitsimple.com/how-to/rj45colors.gif

edit; see below for actual colours of wires and positions.
I guess I should've been more specific.:dizzy:

[Murray S.]

Howdy:

As long as it is a Cat5 cable and you are SURE it'[s a crossover cable, it doesn't matter at all which end plugs into which computer !!

Murray

[z1p]

Thx. for the help Murray.

DickeyDongle, as Murray said it doesn't matter what end of the cable you connect to each device. You may want to do a sanity check to make sure that you did get a crossover cable. The wiring for a crossover cable should look like: http://www.cybertechhelp.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=319

and the wiring for a straight through cable should look like: http://www.cybertechhelp.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=318

-z1p

[bAdWaYz]

Thank god he didn't ask about a rollover heheh