At 03:59 PM 3/15/2005, you wrote: >On Tuesday 15 March 2005 09:07 am, Steve Swantz wrote: > > Would using one twisted pair for a phone line and two others of the > > same cable for ethernet result in network noise when the phone rings, > > or is the wire twist sufficient to reduce interference? > >They'll be lots of problems. Personally I wired up a 10Base-T network over >phone-like cat-3 a _years_ ago, but it only barely worked (only worked on >some cards, with packet loss). There wasn't a phone line there to interfere, >but I can only imagine if there was. I ended up using wireless later when I >needed network there again. > >-- >-dave > >Dave Carlson <dave at math.umn.edu> I must disagree. All the houses in our neighborhood (7-10 years old) are in fact wired this way. They use no phone wire at all, only cat 5e run through every room. I know of many people running 2 phone lines & ethernet with no problems. In my own, I run 1 phone line with 5 phones & a 4 computer network with absolutely no trouble. Carl