On Wednesday 29 September 2004 03:37, Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Sep 2004, Rob O'Donnell wrote:
> > At 14:23 29/09/2004, John Foust wrote:
> > >I agree, and I suspect any straight-through RJ-45 cable
> > >was for a telephone system, not networking. Perhaps
> > >Sellam knows examples.
> >
> > I've encountered flat 8 core cable, terminated with RJ45's, used as
> > patch leads in a Serial environment. They were used with Baydek
> > SMUX serial boards, also seen them used with some Specialix
> > terminal servers, both had RJ45 sockets for the serial ports.
> >
> > Of course, when one of my colleagues tried to use them for Ethernet
> > we had terrible problems. They would just about work (for the
> > short lengths in a patch cabinet) at 10Mbps, but were total no-no
> > at 100Mbps.
>
> You can use just about anything for short runs. Even 100-base-T
> might work with 4-strands of random wire at some minimal distance.
> But if you expect anything to run and run reliably, especially at a
> distance, use properly rated cable :)
Indeed, I have used 10ft piece of round phone cable (not UTP) with RJ45s
to run 100BaseT, and gotten a full 12MB/sec or so out of it. However,
"results may not be typical".
Pat
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Received on Wed Sep 29 2004 - 11:48:30 BST