Green stripe, green, orange stripe, blue, blue stripe orange, brown stripe, brown, upvote.

And the savages who use orange stripe, orange, green stripe, blue, blue stripe, green, brown stripe, brown, downvote.

Post below for the slapfight.

  • GeneralDingus@lemmy.cafe
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    7 hours ago

    To be honest, I have no preference, I just followed whatever order guide was on my crimper. Didn’t seem to matter.

    • muusemuuse@sh.itjust.worksOP
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      7 hours ago

      Practically it doesn’t matter. I use type A because I memorized that order and it’s never caused a problem so I stuck with it.

      It’s kind of a weird joke that type A and B exist at all. Both work. Neither solve a problem the other couldn’t.

      Crimp both ends the same and it’s fine. But is funny to have this silly little debate.

      • slazer2au@lemmy.world
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        There is a reason they exist. It called crossover cables from the days before Auto MID-X.

        The days before 100Mb NICs you had to crossover somewhere for connecting 2 like devices otherwise both devices would tx and Rx on the same pins.

      • Winning@lemmy.world
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        I used a little self motivator to memorize B. “If you’re blue inside, it ends in shit.” That puts solid brown at the end, and keeps straight the blue/green pairs in the middle.