phone line + data over cat5E

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CADMAX

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#90848 30-Sep-2011 21:41

Hi all.

My bro has a house with a shed he put up about a year ago (block) and he has put network cable from the house to the shad.

its about a 25-30m run.

the question is can we run data and phone over the one run?

wirless will not work from the house to the shed.... both a double block :/

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nickb800

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#527885 30-Sep-2011 22:12

Short answer - yes, but might do funny things to data when the phone rings.

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tehconz

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#527886 30-Sep-2011 22:13

Yes, but only at 100mbit. 100BASE-TX only uses 4 of the 8 conductors, you would need to look up a cat5 termination diagram to work out which pairs are not used, then split those off on each end for the phone. You can get adapters at each end that give you two 4 wire jacks out of one 8 wire.

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#527888 30-Sep-2011 22:13

Yes there is.

http://www.cdlnz.com/index.html?do=viewproduct&p=NC802&code=C-RJ45LT4

You will need 2, one at each end. Fairly cheap too.

[EDIT] Same as #NickB800

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#527900 30-Sep-2011 22:59

Phones use pins 4/5 on a standard 4pr cable. This allows ethernet over 1/2/3/6 and 4/5 and 7/8 free. Use splitters at each end or make your own cable - remembering you can only use 100TX FE as GE uses all 8.