I believe that straight through cables are simpler to produce: you
literally push the cable into the RJ connector and press it.
Hardly. If you just cut a round cable and press the wires into a flat array, you get them in nearly random order. "Nearly" because the wires in each pair are likely to be close together (each pair is loosely twisted together), but even that doesn't help much because one of the pairs should be connected to pretty distant pins (3 and 6).
I wonder how they automate this.
> Maybe backward compatibility would sound better.
Oh, but crossover cables are also backward compatible. They're compatible, but backward!
Eran
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