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Re:Doing gigabit Ethernet over my British phone wires by Nextgrid on Saturday January 24, 2026 @06:38AM (#46742759)
> a lot of people are renting and cannot touch their wire.

Nobody's going to complain about a backwards-compatible upgrade (you can put phone sockets back when you leave - nobody has to know there's cat 5/6 behind it).

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Re:Doing gigabit Ethernet over my British phone wires by socksy on Saturday January 24, 2026 @01:35PM (#46746201)
Yeah but if you fuck it up it's a much bigger deal
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Re:Doing gigabit Ethernet over my British phone wires by prmoustache on Saturday January 24, 2026 @08:14PM (#46749605)
You can ask a pro to do it if you aren't confident enough. It is not an expensive task.
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