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Is it possible to send any type of data connection through any type of wire?

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3 minutes ago, babadoctor said:

I would hypothetically use the telephone wires as a vga connection so I could run it over a long distance, such as from a computer in a far away room to a room in the living room.

Then you would need a converter to convert the VGA signal to travel along the cable.

Something like this should work: https://www.monoprice.com/Product?p_id=13350

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13 hours ago, babadoctor said:

Solution: buy this adapter and make the ethernet cable run over phone cable with this article:

https://www.cnet.com/forums/discussions/use-of-abandoned-phone-wiring-for-ethernet-connections-581415/

Thank you all very much!

That VGA to UTP conversion box requires all 8 conductors (four twisted pairs) to be present. It's not going to work with a four (or six) conductor telephone wire.

 

An IP-based KVM solution might work, but only if the telephone wire is able to provide sufficient Ethernet bandwidth.

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