[TriLUG] OT: Home Depot and Cat 5

[Rob Lockhart]

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Brian Henning wrote:

| As I understand it, 10-base-T needs 4 conductors (two signal, two
| ground) and 100-base-T requires all 8 (four signal, four ground).
|
| Someone correct me if I'm wrong!

I thought that 10 Base T uses differential signalling as well, but I
could be wrong (I don't have the spec in front of me).  However, the
mask template is far different than 100Mbps.

~  -Rob
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