automatic crossover การใช้

• Most newer switches have automatic crossover ( " auto MDI-X " or " auto-uplink " ) on all ports, eliminating the uplink port and the MDI / MDI-X switch, and allowing all connections to be made with straight-through cables.
• As others have mentioned, if both computers have ethernet ( a key point, you mentioned you have lots of spare ethernet cables, but not that I noticed whether both had ethernet, the XP one in particular since it lacks SATA may not have it built in to the mobo ) ethernet would probably be a good option, as has been discussed you may need a crossover cable but probably not since the Windows 7 computer probably has GbE and these usually ( although as our article mentions it isn't compulsory ) have automatic crossover.