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Old 11th Sep 2020, 7:10 pm   #167
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Default Re: Bodges

In my datacomms-days I've also seen the old 'thinwire Ethernet' extended using 75-Ohm TV coax, Belling-Lee connectors and a total disregard for termination-resistors. It worked, though not-very-well.

Move on a decade or two and I had to 'fix' someone who'd used choc-block connectors to connect 8-core burglar-alarm cable between the local- and remote-ends of a chopped RJ45 patchlead - to try and extend a Cat.5 Ethernet circuit 250 yards down their garden to their garden-office/summer-house.

That one really didn't work!
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