20th February 2003, 10:44 PM
RJ-45 cables are the standard network cables that you'd find at Best Buy, etc. They're actually just CAT-5 cables with RJ-45 connecters, which is the kind of cable that you connect from a computer to a cable modem. If you're using a hub then you'd want to use straight-thru cables (the same that you'd use to connect a computer to a cable modem), but if you want to connect two computers together you'd have to use a crossover cable. The only difference between the two kinds of cables are the wiring of the connectors; they look identical to each other. I was pretty certain that I simply needed a regular straight-thru cable, but on second though I think it might have been a crossover cable.