Subject: Re: Cat 5 wiring
From: Justin Dieters (enderak@gci.net)
Date: Tue Sep 17 2002 - 21:41:52 AKDT
That is correct - pins 3 and 6 are receive and pins 1 and 2 are
transmit. The rest are not used.
How you would use the other 4 I don't know - presumably stripping the
insulation back aways and splitting it - which would seriously degrade
your reliability. I would say theoretically there's no reason you
couldn't, but you probably would lose more than it's worth in bad
packets (especially with 100mbit ethernet)
Just my 2c - It'd be fun to try it and do some tests though! :)
Justin
Jon Reynolds wrote:
> Are all the wires in a cat5 cable used for sending and receiving data,
> if I remember correctly only two pairs are used, is this right? And if
> it is can I use the other two pairs for something else like a telephone?
> And how bad would this degrade my data on the cable running between
> systems?
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> Jon
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