Re: [LUG] using the spare pair in telephone cable for Ethernet

[Mark Evans <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Kelly Jones wrote:
> Has anyone actually done this?
>  
> I have a client with his office in the garden and I need to add Ethernet
> from the house to the office 9 metres way in his garden.  The office does
> not have line of sight with the house and I suspect wireless would be too
> expensive to get a decent result.  I am faced with digging his garden up to
> bury the cable.  However he does have two phone sockets and I have heard
> that the spare pair in the phone cable can be used for Ethernet.  It's
> something I have been meaning to test for ages but never got round to it.

Are you sure you havn't confused this with using one of the spare pairs
on 10/100M ethernet to carry a phone line?

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