I bought a new satellite system (2 Dishes + HD receiver) and the receiver has a built-in Ethernet port in order to connect to the internet and "decrypt" the scrambled channels. The modem is located in my bedroom and the receiver in the living room, about 2 rooms away, I want to have a Lan cable between the modem and receiver, the problem is of course I cant pass the cable on the ground and there is no lan cable in the wall however there is an unused phone cable with (2 pairs inside) which I dont use (Already passing inside the wall), I thought about using it for this task, since the normal network cable is made of 4 pairs of wires, I made a little research and found that only 2 pairs are used, so theoretically the "2 pairs" phone cable can be used as a network cable:
I have connected the cable this way from both ends: (Orange/white, Orange, green/white, blank, blank, Green, blank, blank).
I connected it to the modem from one end, and to my laptop from the other end, it acquired an IP, when I ping the modem the first reply is 1 ms then request timeouts, unplugged it then plugged it again no ip, done again and again until my laptop acquired an IP I pinged same issue happened first reply 1 ms then a set of request timeouts :(
the cable is about 10 meters long, I tried it straight and crossover, anyone have any suggestions ? is it doable or should I stop wasting my time ?