Yes it will work. With that said run it slow 10 mbit, 100 mbit would be ok, but I don't know about 1000 mbit. Use really good solid core wire cat5e. Maybe it's time for a wireless or a wireless bridge. Sam. Josh Welch wrote: > Quoting Erik Anderson <erikerik at gmail.com>: > >> On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 09:07:04 -0600, Steve Swantz >> <aintboeingaintgoing at gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> >>> Since ethernet only requires 4 wires and cat5 comes with 8, can you >>> wire two jacks from one cable, using two twisted pairs to each jack, >>> or are there any interference/performance issues involved? >> >> >> This is definitely possible, as we have recently had to do this at >> work in a few places. (don't ask...it's one of the ramifications of >> working in a 100+ year old building). >> >> Anwyays - it works great. I can't remember the exact pinouts right >> now, but I'll go grab one of the cables we made and get back to you >> with the pinouts. >> >> -Erik >> > > While it will technically work, you're kind of asking for trouble. > This is the > type of arrangement that can end up with weird network errors that are > hard to > reproduce. This type of arragement was more popular, and more > feasible, when > people where running 10BaseT ethernet. Fast ethernet depends a lot > more on the > properties of the electro-magnetic field created by data moving > through the > cat-5 in a specific fashion. Introducing a different field into the > mix in the > form of the phone signalling can cause problems. > > Josh > > > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.7.2 - Release Date: 3/11/2005