Difference between Network Cable and Patch Cable?

[qbbraveheart]

patch cable is from the router or hub to the pc's right

whats network cable then?

so when I go to buy like 100ft of patch cable is it called straight thru cable or patch cable?

 

[superdave1984]

Network cable is the same thing. Only thing I guess is patch cbale may already have the RJ-45 connectors attached. It's all pretty much CAT-5 or CAT-5E or CAT-6 anyway. The way you insert the wires into the RJ-45 is critical to what you are using it for as straight thru, crossover, and rollover all have different "patterns". And thus do different things for different reasons.

 

[Soundmaster2.0]

Patch cable is network cable but the two wires on the outside of the connectors are switched. Network cable goes to the pc patch cable hooks 2 routers together or 2 pcs without a router. This is what I have been told.

 

[Elbatrop1]

Network cable is the same thing. Only thing I guess is patch cbale may already have the RJ-45 connectors attached. It's all pretty much CAT-5 or CAT-5E or CAT-6 anyway. The way you insert the wires into the RJ-45 is critical to what you are using it for as straight thru, crossover, and rollover all have different "patterns". And thus do different things for different reasons.

I agree with this statement.

Straight through cables are for:
-Computer to home-related routers(Linksys and D-Link Routers are actually a switch and a router combined. This is why you connect a with a straight through instead of a crossover).
-Computer to Hub or Switch.
-Computer to Modem
-Router to Modem

Crossover cables are for:
-Computer to Computer
-Computer to Router (not the one's you have in your home).
-Router to Router.

Rolled (or Rollover) cables are for:
-Connecting to routers (again, not the kind in your home) to work on them and otherwise set them up).

 

[qbbraveheart]

ok thanks for clearing up the confusion guys