Date   : Sun, 03 May 2009 03:36:58 +0100
From   : mike@... (Mike Tomlinson)
Subject: Econet over UTP ?

In article <2f806cd70904290704h7153b2b7x5f26f0717797d051@...>
, Rob <robert@...> writes
>Has anybody tried running standard econet over UTP (category 5) cable
>over a reasonable distance (20M or so)?

Yes, for a ~25m network.. Worked fine.  Make sure you keep to the
twisted pairs - I used orange for D+ and D-, green for C+ and C-, and
brown for earth.

I think it would probably work fine for long networks, up to a couple
hundred metres.  For a permanent installation I'd probably use STP.

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