On Mon, 17 Nov 2008, Larry Sacks wrote:
A friend is trying to setup a home network between 2 separate houses -
the older main house and a newly built home. There's about 500 feet
separating the 2 homes and a wireless-N signal is just strong enough to
make it about ¾ of the way between the houses. There is a garage with
power between the 2 houses, but they'd prefer not to put anything
network related into the garage.
There is a common telephone number between the buildings carried on a
telephone line that goes from the street to the old house and then to
the new house.
Would it be possible to (assuming the 2nd pair is wired) carry the
network signal over the unused 2nd pair? If so, how would it be wired?
No. Ethernet requires 2 pairs (+/- for both transmit and receive). In
addition, the telephone connection is likely to be Cat 3 wire (less
twisted than Cat 5, thus more interference). Even if you were able to
run Cat5/Cat5e, that would be pushing the 100 meter (I think about 330
feet) limit on a single run of twisted-pair Ethernet.
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Vicky Staubly http://www.steeds.com/vicky/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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