Ethernet Discoveries

After hearing some advice and following up with research, the team learned that the Fast Ethernet (100Base-T) only uses 4 out of the 8 wires in an Ethernet cable. After tearing apart an old Ethernet cable, pins 4, 5, 7, 8 were clipped and have been confirmed to work as intended. For Gigabit Network Interface Cards (NIC), Ad-HOC is auto-detected, eliminating the requirement of a crossover cable.