Ethernet over telephone extension reel?

Hello uchn-lings everywhere.

I've got a 20 meter cat5/rj45 cable which I use to run to my patio. (So I
can't leave it outside.) When I gather it up or wind it out, it often gets
tangled up.

From my V90 days, I have a rather nice telephone extension reel (much like
this one http://www.homestead.co.uk/extel.htm ) Because it winds up and is
self contained, I'd much rather use this one.

Since ethernet only requires 4 wires (doesn't it?), I could use my RJ45
connector tool on the reel and make myself a wind up ethernet cable.

Before I ruin a perfectly good telephone extension lead and waste a pair of
RJ45 connectors, can anyone tell me that this will never work.

On the other hand, can recommend a proper cat5/RJ45 which winds up like a
telephone extension?

Bill, built the international BluePeterNet.

"Bill Godfrey" <bill-(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:20040603173912.852$(E-Mail Removed)...
> Hello uchn-lings everywhere.
>
> I've got a 20 meter cat5/rj45 cable which I use to run to my patio. (So I
> can't leave it outside.) When I gather it up or wind it out, it often gets
> tangled up.
>
> From my V90 days, I have a rather nice telephone extension reel (much like
> this one http://www.homestead.co.uk/extel.htm ) Because it winds up and is
> self contained, I'd much rather use this one.
>
> Since ethernet only requires 4 wires (doesn't it?), I could use my RJ45
> connector tool on the reel and make myself a wind up ethernet cable.
>
> Before I ruin a perfectly good telephone extension lead and waste a pair
of
> RJ45 connectors, can anyone tell me that this will never work.
>
> On the other hand, can recommend a proper cat5/RJ45 which winds up like a
> telephone extension?
>
> Bill, built the international BluePeterNet.

The telephone cable is likely to be cat3 at best and therefore not at all
suitable for modern ethernet. It *might* work with 10mbps ethernet but
definitely not 100mbps

Rob

On 03 Jun 2004 21:39:12 GMT, bill-(E-Mail Removed)lid (Bill
Godfrey) strung together this:

>Before I ruin a perfectly good telephone extension lead and waste a pair of
>RJ45 connectors, can anyone tell me that this will never work.
>
I wouldn't say it won't work, it probably won't work very well though.

>On the other hand, can recommend a proper cat5/RJ45 which winds up like a
>telephone extension?
>
The only one I've ever seen is this one, http://tinyurl.com/2s454.

Although it's a bit short you could probably butcher it, stick your
own cat5 patch lead in it, and make it longer.
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SJW
A.C.S. Ltd