Quote Originally Posted by Cube3 View Post
The network card does the crossover automatically. You can use a normal patch lead IF your network card supports this function. We'll at least that's my setup.
I think the network option is called Auto-MDIX
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Many do, yes. Likely get the odd packet loss which is not good for cnc even if slight.
However, why bother arguing with the user manual?.
It says use crossover when connected direct so why not do it?.
Not exactly expensive.

I made one from some cat7 bits I had.
Carefully set it all up and was moving in no time.