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Re: Phone frying network



I always use the non-ethernet pairs on a cat 5 cable for phone. It seemed
safer to separate the two services.  I've even used the same cat 5 with Y
connectors for phone and ethernet at the same time.

Pete

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On 19/04/2004 at 09:39 Paul Robinson wrote:

>If you accidentally plug a network cable into a telephone port, you'll
>fry the network
>card (at least). What if you were to wire the telephone (cat5) sockets
so
>that it uses 3
>of the 4 pins unused for networking? Will this save the PC and network
>card from being
>fried, or are network cards all wired differently wrt the unused 4
pins?
>
>Thanks,
>Paul
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regards, Pete
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