Phone & Data over Cat5e?
When I wired my house I ran separate data and phone lines and I'm running a gigabit network. MY Gf's builder, however, ran only a single cat5e cable and one pair (blue-blue/white) was used for phone. I...
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No, analog phone signals should not interfere. For one thing, they're nowhere near the same frequencies used by ethernet. For another, Cat 5/5e/6 cabling uses twisted pairs specifically to eliminate...
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Greg -- thanks, I'll give it a try. I know that it won't work for gigabit as that uses all 4 pairs of wires, but I believe that it will work for 100 mbs.My GF is not particularly tech savvy so I...
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Greg -- it took a while (holidays and the like interfered) but as promised I wanted to update you on the network. I was indeed able to create a100 mps network using the available remaining pairs on the...
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Yeah, if the runs are very long at all, Cat 5e just won't work for Gigabit. You really need Cat 6 for that, so pulling new cable would be the only way to have it work at full speed. If the cables...
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Actually my own home is wired with a mix of cat 5e and cat 6 and I get gigabit over both of them. Good size house, but still below the 100 meter wire length limits. I was under the impression that only...
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My house only has one cat5e also per location , I use 10/100Base-T it works great. 10/100Base-T is fast if your system is slow thats probally because your feed to the Internet is slow. If I build...
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