Cat 5 as phone line.

[raylee011]

Will I be able to use the Cat5 Cable as my phoneline cable to a regular phone jack. I am going to buy about 1000 Cat5 cable and I need to hook up a new phone jack also, Can I use the Cat5.

 

[jlanka]

yes, that will work.

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[camieabz]

It should be better than standard phoneline cable. Make sure to use the pairs, rather than a wire from one pair and a wire from another. The pairing makes the line quality.

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[jihiggs]

phone line is just cat3. i used my existing phone line to run my network over.

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[camieabz]

I'm not saying that phone wire wouldn't work, just that CAT 5 is slightly better. Just like FTP or STP is slightly better than UTP.

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[jihiggs]

i was only re-iterating

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[camieabz]

I was only nit-picking.

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