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. Thanks for the clarification Vicki. Larry ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
