Re: Phone frying network

["Paul Robinson" <ukcueman@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Was that with a Y connector that left all 4 pairs connected on both sides?
So you still
have 50V from the phone going into the network RJ45 (but on the unused
pairs)?

Paul


----- Original Message -----
From: "Pete Shew" <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
To: "UKHA" <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, April 19, 2004 10:32 AM
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Phone frying network


> I always use the non-ethernet pairs on a cat 5 cable for phone. It
seemed
> safer to separate the two services.  I've even used the same cat 5
with Y
> connectors for phone and ethernet at the same time.
>
> Pete
>
> *********** REPLY SEPARATOR  ***********
>
> On 19/04/2004 at 09:39 Paul Robinson wrote:
>
> >If you accidentally plug a network cable into a telephone port,
you'll
> >fry the network
> >card (at least). What if you were to wire the telephone (cat5)
sockets so
> >that it uses 3
> >of the 4 pins unused for networking? Will this save the PC and
network
> >card from being
> >fried, or are network cards all wired differently wrt the unused 4
pins?
> >
> >Thanks,
> >Paul