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Re: Doubling 100MBit ethernet by splitting the cable



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On Wed, May 21, 2003 at 01:56:32PM -0400, Jason Healy wrote:
> Ethernet does only use 4 of the 8 wires in the cable.  I think that
> the original idea was to carry voice and data over the same cable.

This is only true at the 10Mbps signal rate on Cat5 cable.  It's not
applicable on any non-Cat5 connection, nor is it applicable with a
100Mbps signal rate.

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