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I am just trying to explain why your comment is grey. To be clear, there is no speed increase from using a crossover cable instead of a straight-through cable together with auto sensing.


But is it slower. I never said it was faster than using auto-sensing. I said it was faster (for me) than using a third computer or using Wifi.

Plus you are (again) ignoring the situations where it's an older computer that does not have auto-sensing.

True or false: Crossover cable is more versatile for direct data transfers and is not any slower than using auto-sensing.

AFAICT, there is nothing wrong with crossover cable. If there was, methinks the parent commenter wouldn't be mentioning it on HN.

I do not see grey because I use a text-only browser. It's all the same color (except italics), just how I like it. :)




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