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I have a bad Ethernet cables through unused chimney from my apartament to the basement. The workers I asked to pull it just did it brute force and 2 of pairs ar
by gitowiec 2mo ago
I have a bad Ethernet cables through unused chimney from my apartament to the basement. The workers I asked to pull it just did it brute force and 2 of pairs are broken. When I was chatting with Claude to see if I can use it somehow to send Ethernet packets one of the Claude responses was to use broken cables as a pilot to pull fiber channel!
- KellyCriterion 2mo agoNice one :)
- SOLAR_FIELDS 2mo agoI tried this in my house that has ancient copper telephone lines. I was trying to get some level of walled ethernet. I wanted to use the existing wires to pull new ethernet as is discussed here, sadly the builders had stapled them to the interior studs when they ran the telephone lines back in the 70's.
- toast0 2mo agoYou can run 100mbps with only two pair, if you have something on at least one end which you can tell to only negotiate to 100.
- bestham 2mo agoThis is true. But you can also run gigabit ethernet over a single pair (1000BASE-T1) often called SPE. The transceivers are more expansive than normal four pair gigabit and the official cable requirement is Cat6A but even if the headroom is lower it will work on lesser Cat levels.
- toast0 2mo agoSingle pair ethernet exists, but it's hard to find products with it. Would be nice if there were more media converters available.