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[Technomage]

mike havens wrote:
> I got some phone cable (green & red/yellow & black). Could I use it for
> ethernet cable (blue, green, orange, brown)? Which pins would I connect it
> to if so? I would think red would go to dark blue and and green to
> light/striped blue. then black would  go to dark green  and yellow to to
> light/striped green. I'm hoping that it is like a phone where two of the
> lines are used and the other two are useless. Let me know!  Thanks
>   
A: no. Phone cable is typically cat-3 quality. the windings are 
different and bandwidth far less.
you might get away with using it as a 3 foot patch cord, but the 
creosstalk you'd get would
cut throughput enormously.