cat-5

[mike havens]

all I need it for is patch cables... and telephone cables. Why doesn't
crosstalk affect the telephone signal?

On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 12:50 PM, Technomage <technomage.hawke at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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 bablesxlack 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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