Wires/Cables

mo786

mo786

mo786

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Hi
I have 2 PCs. Main one upstairs and another downstairs.

Wireless has been crap for me, and as we are having new carpet put down I am looking at the possibility of connecting the downstairs PC to he upstairsone with an ethernet (cat5e ?) wire.

The distance will be aroudn 50m

The thing is, ethernet wire is pretty fat. Is there a thinner variant available? Is it possible to use normal telephine wire to carry the signal or does ethernet wire allow much fatser speed?

Also do you reocmmend buyign a premade wire or making my own?
 
Ethernet, due to many many reasons. There isn't a thinner variant that's still true CAT5. Making your own is easy enough, and probably significantly cheaper if you can borrow a crimping tool from a mate. You're going to struggle to run a premade anyways due to having to thread the connector through gaps, easier to attach it once you've run the cable.
 
Ethernet cable is Twisted pairs too, telephone wire is not. You could try it, as ethernet has 8 wires, telephone cable has 4, but 100Mbit only needs 4 (gigabit needs 6). As long as its the same SWG (Standard Wire Gauge) it should be fine, but with it not being twisted, the speed will most likely be affected due to interference.

In sort, yes, it would probabyl work, but it will be crap.
 
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