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share Phone and Data over CAT5?
Name: Rasher Date: April 21, 2004 at 04:08:47 Pacific OS: win 2000 CPU/Ram: intel 256
Comment:
I have an electrician rewiring my house. He has recommended that I run Cat5 to all the phone points for 'future proofing'. I've got no problem with that as it costs pretty much the same. However i don't understand how I can share the termination point (i.e. phone point) between networking PCs (for music etc and) still keeping my phones plugged in.
Is there some sort of adaptor I'll need? or should I insist he runs 2 lines to each point? Any help would be greatly appreciated. As you can see i'm not very techy so feel free to dumb down answers!
Name: Danny Larouche Date: April 21, 2004 at 07:41:01 Pacific
Reply:
Computers only use 2 pairs of wires and phones are using either 1 or 2 pairs.
Danny
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Response Number 2
Name: wizard-fred Date: April 21, 2004 at 08:40:18 Pacific
Reply:
I would recommend running separate phone and net cables. Additional cost is minimal and a lot easier to connect. Also the ring signal (approximately 100 volts ac) may cause interference with the network signal. Just my 2 cents.
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Response Number 3
Name: fritz Date: April 22, 2004 at 04:21:47 Pacific
Reply:
You would want to keep your data and phone wires seperate for a couple of reasons, induced currents from the ring on a phone will disrupt data transmission on a LAN and if you ever need to switch things around the shared pairs are a nightmare to keep track of.
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