- HPNA Wiring Pinouts
- Posted by Donovan on July 16th, 2003
I need to network a couple of computers at home. I understand the
HPNA technology, but... Can you not just take an normal RJ45 cable
and cut one end off, install an RJ11 end (making sure that the correct
wires were punched on the RJ11 end. If this scenario would work, I
could just use my existing Ethernet NIC and Ethernet Switch. Has
anyone tried this before??? Does it sound like a longshot?
Thanks in advance
- Posted by CJT on July 16th, 2003
Donovan wrote:
If I understand you correctly (i.e. that you contemplate wiring an
ethernet connection directly to a phone line), it sounds like a good
way to destroy a NIC and/or switch.
- Posted by Anonymous Joe on July 17th, 2003
"Donovan" <donovan.sykes@microflocompany.com> wrote in message
news:828e87a7.0307160638.28efb71b@posting.google.c om...
Maybe there's a reason why HPNA isnt called Ethernet....
Even if you could get this cable made (since of the 8 pins in Ethernet
cable, only 4 are actually used for data, and an RJ11 jack has 4 wires, but
you'd have to find out where the 4 pins go..you cant just randomly wire 4
the 4 pins from the RJ45 to a random order of the 4 pins in RJ11), I would
be willing to bet all my money that the HPNA technology doesn't read out the
data like an Ethernet switch/NIC. That's where you get the problem.
It isn't in the physical cable, it's in the electrical part of the cable,
how it operates.
It sounds more like an impossibility than a longshot.
- Posted by Anonymous Joe on July 17th, 2003
"Donovan" <donovan.sykes@microflocompany.com> wrote in message
news:828e87a7.0307160638.28efb71b@posting.google.c om...
Maybe there's a reason why HPNA isnt called Ethernet....
Even if you could get this cable made (since of the 8 pins in Ethernet
cable, only 4 are actually used for data, and an RJ11 jack has 4 wires, but
you'd have to find out where the 4 pins go..you cant just randomly wire 4
the 4 pins from the RJ45 to a random order of the 4 pins in RJ11), I would
be willing to bet all my money that the HPNA technology doesn't read out the
data like an Ethernet switch/NIC. That's where you get the problem.
It isn't in the physical cable, it's in the electrical part of the cable,
how it operates.
It sounds more like an impossibility than a longshot.
