29-09-2016, 11:02 AM
I've not seen plain Cat5 sold for maybe ten years?
Apparently a spec allowing 2Gbps to 5Gbps on Cat5e has been ratified, though people have been selling gear for a while. Good luck on getting anything individually to sustain more than 200Mbps on a home network.
I've used unbalanced audio over Cat5e, from a low impedance source though. I've used it also to extend VGA using off the shelf adaptors for a hall's Video projector, screened Cat5e for cables (installed, not loose) to mixing desk from boxes for balanced sources at stage, two x Cat5e of 15m spliced direct into a £2 HDMI 1m cable cut in half with no added hardware and to extend media centre "IR" remote for 30m.
I'm going to experiment next with using maybe 10 turns as a loop aerial, wiring the ends in series only for low frequency and parallel for high frequency.
Apparently a spec allowing 2Gbps to 5Gbps on Cat5e has been ratified, though people have been selling gear for a while. Good luck on getting anything individually to sustain more than 200Mbps on a home network.
I've used unbalanced audio over Cat5e, from a low impedance source though. I've used it also to extend VGA using off the shelf adaptors for a hall's Video projector, screened Cat5e for cables (installed, not loose) to mixing desk from boxes for balanced sources at stage, two x Cat5e of 15m spliced direct into a £2 HDMI 1m cable cut in half with no added hardware and to extend media centre "IR" remote for 30m.
I'm going to experiment next with using maybe 10 turns as a loop aerial, wiring the ends in series only for low frequency and parallel for high frequency.
