CAT-5 / Phone / Modem Cable Questions
 

Hello,

Can some one throw out the original post on this issue, please? I mustuv got
a bit overzealous on cleaning up after a trip, and missed it. Thanks.

"Clifford Keele" wrote in message
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Your modem wire and your network Cat 5 wire will never see eachother.
One will
not weaken the other. The only weak link you'll have is a dial up modem.
Think
Cable modem or DSL, dialup is a thing of the past.



Just use standard phone wire for the connection to the wall (assuming you
are using a standard 56K modem). The twisted pair does little to augment
standard analog/voice connectons (modem).

If you use a cable modem, and are creative enough, you can use wires
1,2,3, & 6 for the network, and wires 4&5 (middle two) for the phone
(assuming you are only running 10baseT or 100baseT). You really only
need all 8 wires for 1000 baseT. And there is no sense in purchasing a
1000baseT net if you connect it to a less than 1 MBit cable modem.

----- CK 00000

CAT-5 / Phone / Modem Cable Questions
 

On Tue, 24 Jun 2003 10:13:30 GMT, "MF"
wrote:

Hello,

Can some one throw out the original post on this issue, please? I mustuv got
a bit overzealous on cleaning up after a trip, and missed it. Thanks.

The OP wanted to know if it would help to run Cat5 between the wall
jack and his/her modem (inside wiring being Cat5 also). Not specified,
or relevent IMO, whether it was a dial-up or DSL modem.

CAT-5 / Phone / Modem Cable Questions
 

Thanks.
Since it is just a modem connection then CAT5 is not needed. Now, if the OP
has the ability to make a phone line with decent connectors and a crimper,
then making a line out of CAT5 certainly won't hurt but is not necessary.
Even though the CAT5 is in the house, you still have the joe schmoe copper
running from the phone company to the house, so the quality of the line is
already at that level.

Now, the DSL people are shipping pretty fancy phone cables with the DSL
modems, so if the OP has that already, that is the best they will do.

Maury
Wylie, TX

"Gary Tait" wrote in message
...
On Tue, 24 Jun 2003 10:13:30 GMT, "MF"
wrote:

Hello,

Can some one throw out the original post on this issue, please? I mustuv
got
a bit overzealous on cleaning up after a trip, and missed it. Thanks.

The OP wanted to know if it would help to run Cat5 between the wall
jack and his/her modem (inside wiring being Cat5 also). Not specified,
or relevent IMO, whether it was a dial-up or DSL modem.