How to Make a Crossover Cable from One Standard Ethernet Cable

Step-by-Step Guide

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   Step 1: Find a standard Ethernet cable you don't use for anything.

   With this guide, you will be able to use a long 100 feet (30.5 m). cable, or a shorter size, whatever your needs require.
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   Step 2: Towards one end of the cable

   Be careful not to damage the wiring inside the cable or cut yourself. , This will leave the inner wiring exposed.
   
   Examine how the wiring is twisted together and note the colors of the wires.
   
   For this project, we will be cutting the colored wires (green, orange, white-green, white-orange) and leaving the other wires in place as usual. , The other wires will be left as-is. , First, strip the orange wire on both cut sides down. (approx. 1/4 or 1/2 inch) After both ends of the orange wire has been stripped, strip both ends of the green wire down. (approx. 1/4 or 1/2 inch) , Twist the wires together, and mend with electrical or another kind of tape.
   
   If you have a soldering iron, you can optionally solder the leads together. , Lets continue on. , Start by stripping the green-white wires. (once again, approx. 1/4 or 1/2 inch) Repeat the wire stripping on orange-white wires. (once again, approx. 1/4 or 1/2 inch) , Twist the wires together and fix with tape.
   
   Again, if you prefer, you can solder the wires together as opposed to twisting them together. , Join the orange-white wire on Side "A"
   
   with the green-white wire on Side "B".
   
   Fashion the wires with tape or solder. , Note the direction that the wiring in the cable case is twisting.
   
   Holding the cable in your hands, twist the cable in the same way as the internal wiring is twisted.
   
   Keep the wire twisted, and close it up with tape or shrink-wrap. ,
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   Step 3: cut open a slit a few inches long.

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   Step 4: Peel back and remove the cable casing.

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   Step 5: Cut the green

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   Step 6: orange

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   Step 7: white-green and the white-orange.

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   Step 8: With the wires cut

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   Step 9: work now one-by-one.

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    Step 10: On Side "A" we will call it

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    Step 11: connect the green stripped end to the orange stripped end on Side "B".

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    Step 12: You now have one step of your crossover wire completed.

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    Step 13: Just as we connected the orange and green wires for one side of our crossover cable

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    Step 14: lets now repeat the process with the final two wires.

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    Step 15: On Side "A"

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    Step 16: join the green-white wire to the orange-white wire on Side "B".

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    Step 17: Join the remaining wires.

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    Step 18: Clean the cable up.

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    Step 19: Admire your new

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    Step 20: home made crossover cable!

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