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Can I use a telephone cable (as an Eternet cable) to connect a router to a PC

  • 05-09-2010 11:21PM
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    My PC is in a diferent room to my router. I already have a telephone cable running between the two places. I am trying to avoid drilling holes in the wall etc to run an ethernet cable. Is there anyway I can use the telephone cable that is in situ. Perhaps by wiring the ends into a ethernet plug? I know that my telephone cable does not have 8 pairs of wire. What I do not know is that are all 8 pairs "used" in a connection between a router and PC? If so, which ones, and I can just connect those????
    (note:- I currently have the router next to the PC but I need to move it because the wireless signal is crap to the rest of the house) (note- I cannot just tie a new ethernet cable to the telephone wire and pull it through because it is tight under floor boards)


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