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.
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