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		ars on Oct 20, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why our Smart Video Doorbell will not be able to s... That product is just two cables stuck together. Instead you could just simply run both types of cable to the doorbell, especially since they'll probably go to different places. I googled a bit and it seems you might be able to run low speed Ethernet over untwisted wires if they are not long.

jlgaddis on Oct 21, 2022 [–]

10BASE-T1{S,L} [0] are "only" 10 Mbps but they also need only a single pair of wires (with the latter working up to 1 km).

They aren't exactly in widespread usage yet, though.

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(ETA: And apparently there are even 100 and 1000 Mbps variants now too [0] -- with lower maximum distances, of course.)

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethernet_over_twisted_pair#S...

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