Comments on: Running Ethernet on old wiring

By: Tomi Engdahl

Tomi Engdahl — Sun, 01 Feb 2015 18:43:08 +0000

Thank you for your feedback that you had success with my instructions.

By: Jerry Krinock

Jerry Krinock — Sat, 31 Jan 2015 12:50:20 +0000

It worked for me, on 6-pair tan cable going about 10 meters; we’re getting in excess of 60 Mb/sec. I don’t know how much excess, because we are only using this to get to the internet, not for in-house file transfers over LAN. Therefore, we simply test using http://speedtest.net. We’re getting the full 60 Mb/sec that our ISP provides. Done. No ripping into the walls, Mom!

By: data wiring

data wiring — Tue, 29 Apr 2014 14:36:33 +0000

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By: Ethernet and telephone can share same wires « Tomi Engdahl’s ePanorama blog

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 20:25:41 +0000

[...] sometimes) can be run on the old telephone wiring. There some years ago quite a bit of interest in reusing old telephone wiring for Ethernet connections. Reusing old installed wiring for Ethernet works usually well if the cable has suitable for the [...]