HPNA Wiring Pinouts

I need to network a couple of computers at home. I understand the
HPNA technology, but... Can you not just take an normal RJ45 cable
and cut one end off, install an RJ11 end (making sure that the correct
wires were punched on the RJ11 end. If this scenario would work, I
could just use my existing Ethernet NIC and Ethernet Switch. Has
anyone tried this before??? Does it sound like a longshot?

Thanks in advance

Donovan wrote:

> I need to network a couple of computers at home. I understand the
> HPNA technology, but... Can you not just take an normal RJ45 cable
> and cut one end off, install an RJ11 end (making sure that the correct
> wires were punched on the RJ11 end. If this scenario would work, I
> could just use my existing Ethernet NIC and Ethernet Switch. Has
> anyone tried this before??? Does it sound like a longshot?
>
> Thanks in advance

If I understand you correctly (i.e. that you contemplate wiring an
ethernet connection directly to a phone line), it sounds like a good
way to destroy a NIC and/or switch.

"Donovan" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> I need to network a couple of computers at home. I understand the
> HPNA technology, but... Can you not just take an normal RJ45 cable
> and cut one end off, install an RJ11 end (making sure that the correct
> wires were punched on the RJ11 end. If this scenario would work, I
> could just use my existing Ethernet NIC and Ethernet Switch. Has
> anyone tried this before??? Does it sound like a longshot?
>
> Thanks in advance

Maybe there's a reason why HPNA isnt called Ethernet....

Even if you could get this cable made (since of the 8 pins in Ethernet
cable, only 4 are actually used for data, and an RJ11 jack has 4 wires, but
you'd have to find out where the 4 pins go..you cant just randomly wire 4
the 4 pins from the RJ45 to a random order of the 4 pins in RJ11), I would
be willing to bet all my money that the HPNA technology doesn't read out the
data like an Ethernet switch/NIC. That's where you get the problem.

It isn't in the physical cable, it's in the electrical part of the cable,
how it operates.

It sounds more like an impossibility than a longshot.

"Donovan" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> I need to network a couple of computers at home. I understand the
> HPNA technology, but... Can you not just take an normal RJ45 cable
> and cut one end off, install an RJ11 end (making sure that the correct
> wires were punched on the RJ11 end. If this scenario would work, I
> could just use my existing Ethernet NIC and Ethernet Switch. Has
> anyone tried this before??? Does it sound like a longshot?
>
> Thanks in advance

Maybe there's a reason why HPNA isnt called Ethernet....

Even if you could get this cable made (since of the 8 pins in Ethernet
cable, only 4 are actually used for data, and an RJ11 jack has 4 wires, but
you'd have to find out where the 4 pins go..you cant just randomly wire 4
the 4 pins from the RJ45 to a random order of the 4 pins in RJ11), I would
be willing to bet all my money that the HPNA technology doesn't read out the
data like an Ethernet switch/NIC. That's where you get the problem.

It isn't in the physical cable, it's in the electrical part of the cable,
how it operates.

It sounds more like an impossibility than a longshot.