I have lots of telephone wire, it is the same color configuration as the cat5 however is pink. Fearing deterioration of cps I went to radio shak and bought 110feet of wire to connect my main computer to and installed it instead, but I have an additional guest bedroom to hook up (60) feet, so would like some input, but have some more information.
I read that there are cat 3 wires and cat 5 and that the cat 5 are tighter wound to give more throughput, is my telephone wire cat3? it just sais telephone wire and may be 5 years old or older. I additionally have a 2 pair telephone wire that I saw somone use for networking.
Lastly I bought the barricade smc full duplex that can run LAN at 100 kbps and I was assuming that the 4 wire was probably used tor 10 kbps but the 8 wire is a mystery.
I am sure others have simmilar questions so anyone who can give a tried and tested input will be appreciated by me and by them.
TungFree
I read that there are cat 3 wires and cat 5 and that the cat 5 are tighter wound to give more throughput, is my telephone wire cat3? it just sais telephone wire and may be 5 years old or older. I additionally have a 2 pair telephone wire that I saw somone use for networking.
Lastly I bought the barricade smc full duplex that can run LAN at 100 kbps and I was assuming that the 4 wire was probably used tor 10 kbps but the 8 wire is a mystery.
I am sure others have simmilar questions so anyone who can give a tried and tested input will be appreciated by me and by them.
TungFree
but donno if 60 feet is considered a long span or not my longest one now is 110 feet and that cat 5 cable, on a sunday midday Hawaii RR cable, was downloading at 1minute to 3/4 minute per meg 
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