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		dangravell 3 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Doing gigabit Ethernet over my British phone wires Is there a way of testing two points to see if they can communicate with each other before I go to the trouble of wiring to a rj45 endpoint? I'm not convinced socket A can talk to socket B when, for example, socket B is in an extension, or... or...

jimnotgym 3 months ago [–]

Short two wires on one end, go to the other end with a multimeter and test for continuity between those two wires on your lowest resistance range. If it is infinity then no connection. If it is some low number then there is a connection

dangravell 3 months ago | [–]

Fantastic - thanks!

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