Ethernet over phone?

[cheezyguy5]

This is kind of a weird question. but I want to know if it is, theoretically, POSSIBLE. Can i use the 2 unused wires in the phone jacks around the house to carry an ethernet signal? All the cat5 and the like have 8 wires, and only use 4. I want to know if i can squish the 4 cables into 2.

 

[USAFRet]

No can do.

 

[nukemaster]

You can not without an adapter of sorts(and these use the actual phone lines like dsl does).

HPNA devices are a system designed to use your phones lines for home networking, but it did not seem to take off.

You may also want to check out home plug adapters to use your power lines for networking.

 

[cheezyguy5]

You can not without an adapter of sorts(and these use the actual phone lines like dsl does).

HPNA devices are a system designed to use your phones lines for home networking, but it did not seem to take off.

You may also want to check out home plug adapters to use your power lines for networking.

Aww... if only we had the phone base near the MagicJack, then it would work...

 

[nukemaster]

Is wireless an option for you?

Did you check out the Home plug(powerline) products? They sell kits with 2 adapters to get your started. You can even use a switch on one and and a router on the other if you need more plugs(bandwidth is shared clearly).

Just as an example of what is on the market.
http://www.netgear.com/service-providers/products/home/networking/powerline/XAVB5201.aspx

 

[tclam662]

This is kind of a weird question. but I want to know if it is, theoretically, POSSIBLE. Can i use the 2 unused wires in the phone jacks around the house to carry an ethernet signal? All the cat5 and the like have 8 wires, and only use 4. I want to know if i can squish the 4 cables into 2.

Although Cat5 have 8 wires, 10/100BASE TX uses 4 of the 8 wires only, active pairs in a standard connection are terminated on pins 1, 2, 3 and 6.

If your phone cable have 4 wires then you can actually use that as a lan cable but you may suffer from reduced speed.

It looks like you have 2 wires in your phone cable only, it is find for telephone but not for networking.

You should probably try wifi or Homeplug

 

[nukemaster]

I actually used phone line over short distances and even a longer distance sitting in a coil(1,2,3,6 so not gigabit ready), but when I tried longer distance(house to garage), it did not work at all.

This was all back in the XP days

 

[cheezyguy5]

I just asked my Dad and it turns out the house is wired with CAT5e, But still, 2 wires are used. How would I wire an ethernet line through the same cable?

 

[hang-the-9]

I just asked my Dad and it turns out the house is wired with CAT5e, But still, 2 wires are used. How would I wire an ethernet line through the same cable?

If you have Cat5e cable why not use that? Bit confusing now about what you are trying to do exactly. You can't use 2 wire from a phone cable for ethernet.

It may help if you say exactly what your goal is and what equipment you are trying to do it with.

 

[Pooneil]

I just asked my Dad and it turns out the house is wired with CAT5e, But still, 2 wires are used. How would I wire an ethernet line through the same cable?

Is the telephone cable wired in a home run pattern where all the wires meet at one terminal box? Or are they daisey chained?

 

[nukemaster]

I think they want to run both Phone and Network over the same cable. This can be done for upto 100 megabit/sec, but will NOT work for gigabit

Use pin(in the plug) 1-2(pair 1)-3-6(pair 2) and let the phone run on 5-4 or 7-8

Just make sure you are using actual pairs(so the color and the color with the white strip are twisted together in the cable).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethernet_over_twisted_pair

 

[cheezyguy5]

I think they want to run both Phone and Network over the same cable. This can be done for upto 100 megabit/sec, but will NOT work for gigabit

Use pin(in the plug) 1-2(pair 1)-3-6(pair 2) and let the phone run on 5-4 or 7-8

Just make sure you are using actual pairs(so the color and the color with the white strip are twisted together in the cable).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethernet_over_twisted_pair

THANK YOU!!! That is the exact information I need!

 

[nukemaster]

Let us know how it goes.

 

[cheezyguy5]

I just asked my Dad and it turns out the house is wired with CAT5e, But still, 2 wires are used. How would I wire an ethernet line through the same cable?

If you have Cat5e cable why not use that? Bit confusing now about what you are trying to do exactly. You can't use 2 wire from a phone cable for ethernet.

It may help if you say exactly what your goal is and what equipment you are trying to do it with.

The WIRE used is CAT5e standard. The only output jacks on the ends are RJ11, My dad and I are trying to run ethernet over the existing wiring, and have each panel have both RJ11 and RJ45.