Old Bell 6-wire cable will not make you happy at higher data-rates
(i.e. 100Mb) even if you re-crimp the shells properly (1&2, 3&6
twisted) because the old bell wire simply doesn't have the required
number of twists per foot to reliably move data at high rates. I am
surprised that 10Mb even worked for some folks. Perhaps shorter
distances.

Anyway, 11G wireless is certainly an alternative, but again, distances
and data rates are tied closely. Even great wireless 11G stuff (54Mbps)
tails off in performance as the signal decreases, and at 100 feet or
more, you'll probably see LESS datarate than a wired 10Mb pipe in a
typical home.


Lastly, in a wired scenerio, the link make activate, but due to poor
cabling, the error rate may be high, and the effective performance will
be much lower. You'll need to look at error and re-transmit rates to
see if you have a good solution.

Mark

Jim Redelfs wrote:
In article ,
Bennett Price wrote:

As for CAT 5 and Ethernet, you must use CAT 5 for 100 MB Enet; you
might get away with short stretches of plain old bell wire for 10MB Enet.

So, without running Cat5 wire, a secure WIRELESS network would probably be
noticably faster than a wired one running on the old Bell 6-pr, right?
--

JR