On Saturday 17 April 2004 06:34 pm, Vince Littler wrote:
On Saturday 17 April 2004 10:42 pm, Stephen W wrote:
Vince - and all:
As for a hard-wire solution: My house is wired for telephone in every room and there are four pairs of wires in each box, but only one pair is being used for telephone service, do if worse comes to worst
could I
use some of those extra 6 wires?)
Networking down telephone wires is probably not impossible, but it is an advanced topic, which I would suggest you leave well alone for the time
Thirdly, doing both in the same cable and mixing telephone voltages with your ethernet cards - and the issues of earthing, mutual capacitance and lightning protection are so advanced, that if you could frame the right questions, you might not be asking them here...
The extra wires in the boxes are not connected to anything... only the blue/white pair are used to provide phone connections.
That is what I expected
The orange/white - green/white and brown/white are unused and not connected to anything... just part of the cable that runs from box to box...
Which is why I said "Thirdly, doing both in the same cable..."
If you want a wired setup, then you could investigate running more cable along the same routes. A proper CAT5 cable is about the same size as a phone cable. You will also need the proper ethernet wall plates. And you will need to find a place to locate a hub or a switch and wire each box back to the hub. You cannot run more than 1 machine on any cable to the hub.
Vince
I would *not* plan on using any telephone wiring unless you want a) problems and b) a really slow network. Cat5 is pretty fussy stuff if you've ever made up your own cables. The wiring must be done in a specific manner or it's not going to cut it. -- +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ + Bruce S. Marshall bmarsh@bmarsh.com Bellaire, MI 04/17/04 19:14 + +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ "If you eat yogurt you'll have lots of culture."