Submitted 22 hours ago by 
muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works to selfhosted@lemmy.world
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.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 22 hours ago Screw your standards, I’ll lay the cables in whatever order I like; it’s my ethernet cable after all. 😤
muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 22 hours ago Get him! Kill the non-believer! Your rabbit god is ridiculous in the face of our duck god!
irmadlad@lemmy.world 21 hours ago That got a knowing nod and a chuckle out of me.
568B or nothing at all.
muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 21 hours ago Bah. People like you are why tamper resistant outlets are a thing.
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.works 21 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.
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.
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.
CorrectAlias@piefed.blahaj.zone 18 hours ago I use B but not for any particular reason other than it was what was used to teach me to crimp.
568C (the C is for chaos)
Wire in whatever way they fall in by themselves.
Then rewire the pins on the NICs so they can communicate.
It’s not so bad once you level up your soldering skills.
muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 10 hours ago I hate soldering. I’m somehow better at welding than soldering.
TIL I’m a savage lol
I learned B I 2002. I can make either but have to really think about A while I’m making it.
Over the distance I’m running cables (about 60 feet total for the longest runs) it really doesn’t matter. I’m running fiber for anything beyond gigabit anyway so I say aquamarine, violet, and lime green for lyfe.
ITGuyLevi@programming.dev 2 hours ago
I’ve been using B for so long it’s just muscle memory at this point. No real reason beyond my NCO saying it was the right way.