[ale] cat5

[jknapka at earthlink.net (Joseph A Knapka)]

Stephen Turner wrote:
> 
> cat5 has 8 wires... why cant we use more of them as
> like simaltanious transfers of data? ?? could send
> much more info over it i think than we currently are......

It does seem a bit silly to waste half the wire in your
cable plant. I wonder why the standard didn't just specify
4-wire cable? The four wires that are already used
can apparently handle everything up to gigabit.

Of course, you could use those last 4 wires to run two
separate connections over a single cable, but you'd
have to buy or make splitters and adapters.

Cheers,

-- Joe
"I should like to close this book by sticking out any part of my neck
 which is not yet exposed, and making a few predictions about how the
 problem of quantum gravity will in the end be solved."
 --- Physicist Lee Smolin, "Three Roads to Quantum Gravity"

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