Ignoramus23410, 6/6/2005, 9:58:12 AM, wrote:

I need to run about 100-120 feet of cat5e cable to connect our bedroom
to the utility room where the network switch, DSL router etc is. I
ALSO need to run a phone cable, from utility room to the same
bedroom. I am wondering if all 8 wires on a cat5e cable are used for
Ethernet purposes, and if that is not the case, is there a couple I
could use for phone. That way I could save $$ and time by running one
cable instead of two.

i

CAT5e cable is usually used for 100Mbit connections which require only
four wires. However this cable has also been used for 1000Mbit
connections which do require all eight conductors. If you don't plan
on using Gigabit then you should be okay.

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