{"id":2193,"date":"2010-01-03T20:10:36","date_gmt":"2010-01-04T00:10:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/?p=2193"},"modified":"2010-01-05T13:17:09","modified_gmt":"2010-01-05T17:17:09","slug":"splitting-cat-5-cable-dont-try-this-at-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/2010\/01\/splitting-cat-5-cable-dont-try-this-at-home\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;splitting&#8221; Cat 5 cable, don&#8217;t try this at home.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Technically, you can run two 10\/100 network lines, with a standard cat 5 cable. \u00c2\u00a0That is because a 10\/100 network line only uses 4 of the 8 wires inside a cat 5 line.<\/p>\n<p>I do not recommend this though. \u00c2\u00a0Doing so, prevents you from uses 1 Gbs networking, and\/or Power over Ethernet.<\/p>\n<p>If you do choose to do so, then remember that you need to have the same pin configurations on both ends&#8230; \u00c2\u00a0Typically, I have seen this configuration used:<\/p>\n<p>* Connection 1 \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<br \/>\n1 &#8211; orange white<br \/>\n2 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c orange<br \/>\n3 &#8211; green white<br \/>\n6 &#8211; green<\/p>\n<p>* Connection 2\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<br \/>\n1 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c blue white<br \/>\n2 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c blue<br \/>\n3 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c brown white<br \/>\n6 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c brown<\/p>\n<p>The best alternative would to pull 2 cables. The next best thing would to get a cheap switch and do it that way. You can find them now for around $10.00&#8230; \u00c2\u00a0You would then just pull one cable, and connect it to the switch\/hub. \u00c2\u00a0Then you can get two+ connections through one cable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Technically, you can run two 10\/100 network lines, with a standard cat 5 cable. \u00c2\u00a0That is because a 10\/100 network line only uses 4 of the 8 wires inside a cat 5 line. I do not recommend this though. \u00c2\u00a0Doing so, prevents you from uses 1 Gbs networking, and\/or Power over Ethernet. If you do <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/2010\/01\/splitting-cat-5-cable-dont-try-this-at-home\/\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[12,23,129],"tags":[134,135,1840],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2193"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The constant WPCACHEHOME must be set in the file wp-config.php and point at the WP Super Cache plugin directory. -->