RE: Cat 5 wiring


Subject: RE: Cat 5 wiring
From: Arthur Corliss (arthur@corlissfamily.org)
Date: Wed Sep 18 2002 - 13:31:42 AKDT


> FWIW, I run 100M and a single POTS line across a plenum cat5e rated cable
> without any issues.
>
> Granted, it's less than 100 feet, so that probably helps, and I use good
> termination equipment.

;-) I'd like to see what your packet loss is like while sending a reasonable
baud-rate fax on that POTS pair. . . Voice comm is low frequency enough to
cause minimal interference, if any, but putting any digital traffic on the
line, and all bets are off.

> I've never multiplexed 2 ethernets on a single cat5e cable though.
> It would be interesting to run one ethernet and see what a
> pentascanner reads for the other pairs..

Indeed.

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