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Cat5e Phone cables as ethernet cables.

shirokado
By shirokado
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I checked around my doors and stuff and there seems to be a 980feet, yes a Nine Hundred and Eighty Feet Cat5e Phone cable(well thats what the ends look like) running around my house. can i somehow use that as an Ethernet cable? im using powerline right now but its sometimes annoying.

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So it has RJ11 plugs ? If its 2 pair then you will only get 10/100 speeds

Something wrong with your connection ?

Run the damn cable :)

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Also depends on how far you intend running. You would almost certainly need to reduce the length of the cable.

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Ethernet can run about 100 meters / 300 feet. CAT5e is just a specification of cable. You can terminate it with different ends and use for different things, phone, networking, signaling, etc.

As said, you will have to cut it down to length - you will have massive loss on something that long, if it works at all. You will also most likely have to cut the existing ends off and re-terminate them with proper RJ45 ends and proper pairing of the cables.

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I wonder if its possible for you to buy some cat5e or cat6 and use the POTS wiring as a sort of pull to get your cat cable in the wall. For speeds this would be most ideal.

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You can as long as the POTS wiring is loose enough to pull, this is actaully the way to do it use something in there to get new wires in the wall.

Else you just tape off the end and lower it top down and hope it comes out somewhere near the hole :D

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Run the damn cable :)

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Do you mean that the jacket has "980 feet" marked on it? If so, that is nothing more than a length marking repeated every so often that you can use to make pulls off of the spool.

 

Cat5e is a specification that means it will have 8 wires that have pairs twisted for 100 Mhz, it is used for both phone or internet, and will work just fine.

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I doubt the cable is that long, if it says it on the jacket it is how far from the spool it is.  Spools of Cat5e come in 305m.  Also OP please take a picture of the ends for us to help you better :) 

 

Worse comes to worse and it doesn't work, Do what Rufee said and tape new cable on to an end and pull it through.  Pull two though!

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