Brian Henning wrote: > As I understand it, 10-base-T needs 4 conductors (two signal, two ground) > and 100-base-T requires all 8 (four signal, four ground).
only 4 are used. I don't know why everyone has the 8 conductors. You would think that everyone would have dropped the extra 4 by now. People doing power over ethernet (poe) - eg for WAPs at the end of a long run of ethernet, where there's no 120V, send it over one of the unused pair. Joe -- Joseph Mack PhD, High Performance Computing & Scientific Visualization LMIT, Supporting the EPA Research Triangle Park, NC 919-541-0007 Federal Contact - John B. Smith 919-541-1087 - [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
