[ale] cat5

[Joe Bayes]

Geoffrey typeth:

>So I said all that to get to this.  Assuming you're only using half the 
>wires in said cable, if you use the other half for another connection, 
>is this going to cause problems (interferance)?
>
>I'm likely to give this a spin just to see.  I've got a single cable 
>running from my basement to the 2nd floor.  It's connected to a hub 
>which has two machines connected to it.  I could reclaim that hub if I 
>could rewire this single cable accordingly.

I don't think we ever ran 2 ethernets off the same cable, but back at
the place I used to work, we regularly ran ethernet and appletalk over
one cat5 cable. It usually worked. 

--joe


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