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- From: kkereke@iamerica.net (Kirk Kerekes)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm,comp.dcom.modems,comp.dcom.fax,comp.dcom.lans.misc,comp.dcom.lans.ethernet,comp.dcom.cabling,misc.consumers.house,comp.sys.amiga.networking
- Subject: Re: Phone Wire
- Date: Tue, 20 Feb 1996 20:51:16 -0600
- Organization: PaperClip Products
- Message-ID: <kkereke-2002962051170001@iad_ppp0322.iamerica.net>
- References: <798.6622T1090T1309@Th0r.foo.bar>
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- In article <798.6622T1090T1309@Th0r.foo.bar>, earthstar@grumpy.magg.net
- (Greg_Blanchard) wrote:
-
- > Wouldn't "Twisted Pair" or Type 3 be better for a telephone wire that
- > will go 100' through my attic??? Since this line will go to my modem
- > I want to keep the line as "clean" as possible and UTP isn't all that
- > expensive.
-
- I just ran cat 5 around our place (2 runs of 4 pair), with lots of long
- runs (250 ft in buried conduit.) That is one QUIET phone line, even though
- it is buried in the same trench as a 200A power run.
-
- You can't go wrong with better wire.
-
- (as an experiment, I tried running b&w video through a 500 foot roll of
- the cat 5 -- it worked perfectly.)
-
- --
- Kirk Kerekes
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