Chuck Yerkes wrote:


> Ethernet != Serial.
> You can use the same cables, but ethernet needs 4 wires and serial
> really wants 8 (you *might* get away with a 3 wire serial at 2400baud).
> But 2 CAT5 cables gives you want you want perhaps.

We used to get 19,600 over 3 wires covering 80 metres or
so over cat5 at a past site.  No worries. Not sure if
using the same bundle for ethernet would interfere with
it though?  We had to share the cable with digital
telephones, which were pretty noisy, but the terminals
didn't care.

Carl