2 wire Ethernet cable

[Patrik6765]

Hi does anybody know does there exits a way to convert 2 normal copper wires to ethernet wires i know that dsl works with 2 wires but i cant find an adpater or something simmilar and i dont know if powerline adpater could work the cable is about 30m (100ft) it has 5 wires 3 for the garage power and 2 cables are unused could i get power to those 2 wires and connect two powerline adpater thanks 

[Falcon1986]

1 hour ago, Patrik6765 said:

Hi does anybody know does there exits a way to convert 2 normal copper wires to ethernet wires i know that dsl works with 2 wires but i cant find an adpater or something simmilar and i dont know if powerline adpater could work the cable is about 30m (100ft) it has 5 wires 3 for the garage power and 2 cables are unused could i get power to those 2 wires and connect two powerline adpater thanks 

What are you trying to accomplish here?

 

What kind of cable do you have now?

 

Why not use proper ethernet?

[Donut417]

2 hours ago, Patrik6765 said:

know does there exits a way to convert 2 normal copper wires to ethernet wires

Well at the bare minimum you need 4 wires for Ethernet and that gets you to 100 Mbps, all 8 are needed for Gigabit or more. On top of that Ethernet is twisted pair, those twists help protect data integrity on the cable. So Im not sure what your looking to do here.

 

 

[Patrik6765]

6 hours ago, Falcon1986 said:

What are you trying to accomplish here?

 

What kind of cable do you have now?

 

Why not use proper ethernet?

I am trying to run an ethernet cable but the conduit where there is already the power cable for the garage is to small to fit an cat6 cable. The power cable for the garage has 5 wires 2 unused i thought that maybe there is some adapter to conect to both sides and have etherent i can put power to those 2 line and i thought getting a powrline adapter but i dont know if that works 

[Patrik6765]

5 hours ago, Donut417 said:

Well at the bare minimum you need 4 wires for Ethernet and that gets you to 100 Mbps, all 8 are needed for Gigabit or more. On top of that Ethernet is twisted pair, those twists help protect data integrity on the cable. So Im not sure what your looking to do here.

 

 

I am trying to get ethernet by only having 2 wires saw that dsl has only 2 wires and beacuse the garage has a power cable which has 2 unused wires i thought using those 2 wires for internet beacuse the cat6 cable wont fit thru the tight conduit

[Donut417]

6 hours ago, Patrik6765 said:

I am trying to get ethernet by only having 2 wires saw that dsl has only 2 wires and beacuse the garage has a power cable which has 2 unused wires i thought using those 2 wires for internet beacuse the cat6 cable wont fit thru the tight conduit

Which we are saying won’t work. What I wrote is according to the standard and how Ethernet is designed. DSL works with two wires because that’s how the standard was designed so it could offer better internet over already deployed cables. You will have to find another way. 

[mariushm]

There are ethernet over 2 wire adapters, which convert ethernet to vdsl, for example : https://www.amazon.com/Tupavco-Ethernet-Extender-Kit-Repeater-VDSL/dp/B01BOD8C9W/

 

 

But powerline networking should go if the power in your garage comes from your house. Put the powerline adapter on same circuit used to power the garage.

 

Or, you say you have two unused cables  ... just put a socket in the garage on those two wires , and put a plug on the other end ... insert the plug into a power strip in your house and a powerline adapter in same power strip.  

The powerline adapter will be powered by mains in your house and you'll send both power and network connection through the two wires.  In the socket in the garage, plug the other powerline adapter which will create either a wireless access point or an ethernet connector (or both)

 

 

[Needfuldoer]

12 hours ago, Patrik6765 said:

I am trying to run an ethernet cable but the conduit where there is already the power cable for the garage is to small to fit an cat6 cable.

Don't run low voltage data inside the same conduit as line voltage AC. Even with proper cabling, you're introducing a ton of noise. (It's also against most electrical code.)

 

For a case like this, use powerline adapters or run a proper Cat6 cable.

[Alex Atkin UK]

9 hours ago, mariushm said:

Or, you say you have two unused cables  ... just put a socket in the garage on those two wires , and put a plug on the other end ... insert the plug into a power strip in your house and a powerline adapter in same power strip.  

The powerline adapter will be powered by mains in your house and you'll send both power and network connection through the two wires.  In the socket in the garage, plug the other powerline adapter which will create either a wireless access point or an ethernet connector (or both)

That's less than ideal as good powerline is supposed to use the ground wire too to maximise the speed.  Its also much safer to use the existing correctly-wired outlets in the garage, assuming they ARE correctly wired of course.  I wouldn't be wanting to add something that looks like an outlet but is none-standard, even if you aren't sending power through it, just asking for a lapse in judgement in the future when you forget how you wired it to cause a hazard.