The oldest of these two cable types is twisted pairs. Invented with the telephone, in the 1870s, twisted pairs have undergone a dramatic rebirth as premise/data computer network cables, usually called ...

Networks are becoming increasingly important, and not only in IT environments, but also production and post production. But they are only as good as the cables that connect them. Sommer Cable is one ...

Why should twisted-pair cabling, used in large quantities to carry 4-kHz voice signals in the phone system, suddenly work well at 100 MHz and beyond? The simple answer is that it doesn’t. All ...

I have 4 pair (8 wire) telephone cable running all through the house. One pair of wire is for the telephone. Is is possible to use the three remaining pairs (6 wires) as an ethernet cable? It is kind ...

If he's running cat3 cable and using gigabit routers in his home, i'd say that 1, he has more money than sense, and 2, that he's not getting gigabit speeds out of said lines.