OT: cat 5 cable, ethernet, connection jacks

[James Knott]

Madison Kelly wrote:
>   Well, strictly, no you can't. Realistically though, if you are in a 
> pinch, you can run two runs through one RJ45 cable but you will probably 
> have trouble with cross talk... Hard to say, I've never done it. If you 
> want to try though, here's the idea:

Two circuits, running in the same cable works fine.  I've seen it, as 
installed by a major networking provider.  There are patch panels, which 
are built to connect one 4 pair cable, to 2 RJ45 jacks.  However, they 
cannot be used for gigabit.
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