"Vanguard" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
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> "Adrian" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>> Hi,
>>
>> I just enrol for the course,
>
> WHICH course? There are lots of courses offered by many
> schools, instructors, and wannabe teachers.
>
>> and I need to buy 3 kind of cables
>
> YOU have to buy the hardware to take the course? Since you have
> to provide the hardware for this hardware-related course (since
> you posted in a hardware-related group), do you get to keep them
> after you finish the course regardless of your grade, or do they
> get to keep your property that they should have provided in the
> first place?
>
>> cross over
>
> Probably a host-to-host network cable.
>
>> straight through
>
> Maybe that is a regular network cable.
>
>> and console cable.
>
> Sounds like the monitor (also called a console). Geez, not only
> do you have to provide the network cables, but they require you
> to supply them with part of the computer's hardware before you
> can use it? I sure don't want to go to that school.
>
More guesswork:
Could this be a nets & comms course specialising in Cisco stuff? In
which case you may need a special cable(s) to connect a PC to the
console port of many of their routers etc.
eg:
http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/701/14.html#topic17
It would also make sense that the students provide their own 'tools
of the trade'.
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