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2026-01-29 16:22:57 UTC

ChipTuner on Nostr: 13 y/o me was just excited that 100mb ethernet only required 4 conductors. The only ...

13 y/o me was just excited that 100mb ethernet only required 4 conductors. The only other issue is that in the US in the 90s rj11 was only wired with 2 conductors so a little bit of rewiring was necessary.

Anyway. I later found out you can run 2.5gb over coax, with slightly over 1ms of latency that grows to about 3ms at capacity.
https://www.tomshardware.com/networking/clever-brit-successfully-repurposes-telephone-wiring-for-gigabit-internet-throughout-his-vintage-home-lad-converts-incomprehensible-mess-of-wires-into-high-speed-ethernet-links