Alternative Ethernet Connector
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Posted by Emtech on September 7, 2005, 9:15 pm
Please log in for more thread options Hi Has anybody run Ethernet (10-100 Mega Bit) through any other connector, other than the standard RJ45? Thanks. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Posted by William P. N. Smith on September 7, 2005, 11:30 am
Please log in for more thread options Well, you can run it on anything that meets the Cat-5 specs (and some things that aren't, cf. the barbed wire discussion that comes up frequently), but then it isn't Ethernet, is it? What problem are you trying to solve? What's wrong with RJ45 in your application? There are (for instance) weathertight RJ45 connectors... | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Posted by James Knott on September 7, 2005, 12:14 pm
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"Emtech" <noaddress> wrote:
> Hi
> > Has anybody run Ethernet (10-100 Mega Bit) through any other connector, > other than the standard RJ45? Many PCMCIA ethernet cards use non-standard connectors, to connect the cable to the card. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Posted by sqrfolkdnc on September 7, 2005, 4:57 pm
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Well, if you were doing a lot of wiring, and wanted to save money, I don't see why you couldn't use telephone type connectors. Just make sure you are consistant and get the polarity correct. You might want to avoid the center two contacts in case soembody plugged in a single line phone. And make the next two contacts be the inbound signal. I had thought of that so that I could wire my home with jacks, but then decided I didn't care if I just had wires coming out of holes in the walls. The official RJ45 wall jacks are a lot more expensive than phone jacks. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Posted by glen herrmannsfeldt on September 7, 2005, 8:42 pm
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sqrfolkdnc wrote: > Well, if you were doing a lot of wiring, and wanted to save money, I
> don't see why you couldn't use telephone type connectors. Just make > sure you are consistant and get the polarity correct. You might want > to avoid the center two contacts in case soembody plugged in a single > line phone. And make the next two contacts be the inbound signal. I > had thought of that so that I could wire my home with jacks, but then > decided I didn't care if I just had wires coming out of holes in the > walls. The official RJ45 wall jacks are a lot more expensive than > phone jacks. If you really want to save money use four line phone jacks. That is, ones that aren't Cat 5 certified but will probably work fine for 10baseT, and if you are a little careful in wiring them at 100baseTX. -- glen | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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>Has anybody run Ethernet (10-100 Mega Bit) through any other connector,
>other than the standard RJ45?