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Originally posted by Nathans_Dad
Yeah, all the cable is Cat-5, I checked the cables at the hub.
So if they all are going into a telephone hub, any ideas how I use only some of them for ethernet without screwing up the rest of the signal in the hub? Do I need to buy an ethernet hub and plug into that?
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You will unplug them from the voice "hub", terminate them (if not already done) to T568B standards and then plug them in to the network hub/switch/router. Presto...your phone cable is now a network cable.
However, if the aforementioned low-bidding scab/hack cabling contractor "daisy-chained" the voice cables (like they used to do in 1970) throughout the home, instead of individual "home runs", you are SOL and those cables can only be used for voice.