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Is PhoneNet better straight, or crossover.

jimjimx

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I’ve heard both are ok, but wondering if anyone knows advantages of one over the other...

While checking my bag of cables, I found both, and it made me wonder..

 
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LaPorta

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I must say, ive almost always used straight phone wire (the cables that came with them were lost to time).

 

CC_333

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Even though I don't know much about PhoneNet, I have to agree with @LaPorta, because logically, why would PhoneNet have been designed to be compatible with ordinary telephone wiring, yet require a special kind of crossover cable in order to work?

I'd suppose it could've been intentionally designed to use either, maybe with a preference for crossover to ensure optimal throughput, with a fallback mode to ensure maximum compatibility with standard phone wiring, but I'm only speculating here.

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NJRoadfan

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Regular RJ-11 patch cables are "crossed over", they flip the tip and ring wires. Analog phones really don't care, don't know about PhoneNet.

 

LaPorta

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RJ-11 may be, but we bought phone cable from the dollar store 20 years ago fifty feet for a dollar. That worked.

 
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