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If you are into gaming, computer repair, or if you travel with a laptop, a crossover cable is a useful thing to have. If you play system link games on your XboX and you don't have a hub or switch, you need a crossover cable to connect them straight to each other. If you troubleshoot people's internet or network connections, a crossover cable would be good for connecting routers that don't auto-uplink. Laptop users could use this to share files when they are away from a hub or switch.

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This is a tiny Ethernet cable, that has the wires laid out just the right way so that it will convert a regular Ethernet cable into a crossover cable. I've seen guides on how to make these different places, but I substituted a few things on mine. One of the best that I have seen is on Ossman.com and was in an issue of Make. I don't have any reason to use the other adapters and no way to test them, so I just kept mine simple.
First of all, I decided to use some of those boots to cover the ends. I didn't wan't to have to remake the cable if the clips broke off. There also wouldn't be enough wire left to put another end on it. I had to cut some rubber off one of the boots so that I could slide it back enough to crimp the second end.
Ossman.com's tutorial shows the wire layouts for both ends of the crossover adapter.
When I went to buy an Ethernet coupler at Radio Shack, they didn't have any. I ended up using one of these wall outlet couplers that I bought at Home Depot. These work just as good, and are about the same size, they just have that annoying little clip on them. 
 
 
I like keeping this around with a little retractable Ethernet cable. It's much more feasible to carry these than 2 different Ethernet cables. Some other ideas for useful attachments could be; a 25 pin null modem cable like this one, RJ45 to RJ11 adapters to consolidate phone and network wires while traveling, or a Laplink 25 pin serial cable like this one (these can still be useful for re-imaging thin clients).
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