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Old 02-18-2007, 04:26 AM   #14
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Originally Posted by TGilb2007 View Post
Yea.....your not gonna be able to split cat-5....it needs all 8 wires for proper communicate, or else everything is gonna fxxxed.
You're half right. You need the router to "split" the connection, but Ethernet does not use all eight wires. It uses the orange pair and the green pair. The blue and brown pairs are not used.

800k is poop slow for cable either way. The router is the least of your worries if that's really your connection speed.

Anyway, the firewall and all can be turned off in the router if you really wanted to do it.

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