the deal is that my brother's computer doesn't have wireless so I need to hardwire it to the printer. The cable needs to go across the room (15 ft)- into a wall mount- out of the house- under the house (50 ft)- into the house- out of a wall mount- to his computer (10 ft). WOW. That is longer than I thought. that's around 75 feet long in total. hmmmmm.... I have an empty phone line (cat 3) there already could I use that?<br clear="all">
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 11:17 PM, Carruth, Rusty <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Rusty.Carruth@smartstoragesys.com" target="_blank">Rusty.Carruth@smartstoragesys.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">1 - maybe, depends upon the printer.<br>
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2 - do you mean a computer into the printer, not a printer? Then it is possible to make a cat5 cable into a USB cable, but you have to change the connectors on the end to be USB - probably not worth the effort. If the printer has cat5 (what, RJ45?) jacks then just connect it to your network, again assuming the printer can do both. (Mine can - probably can do all 3 but I have wireless turned off on it so use usb and network)<br>
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I've taken the liberty of adding 1 and 2 below.<br>
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(1) I now run my printer wirelessly. can I also hard wire a computer into the<br>
<div class="im">printer? I think so but I want to make sure.<br>
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</div>(2) If you can hard wire a printer (I think you mean computer, as I said above)<br>
<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">into the printer as well can cat5 be used to make a usb cord?<br>
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