[OT] 10\+BASE-T on mobile phones (was: Re: [OT] Re: The best Wi-Fi upgrade I made wasn't a new router, it was moving one piece of furniture)

Nuno Silva <[email protected]>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.misc
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
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On 2026-08-22, Rich wrote:

> The Natural Philosopher <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On 21/08/2026 02:57, c186282 wrote:
[...]
>> I use wifi for devices that are simply too hard to hard wire or are 
>> portable. But te main network is CAT5
>
> This is my method as well.  All the fixed equipment is ethernet 
> connected.  And, as well, /some/ of the portable equipment is also 
> ethernet connected when not being "ported around" (laptop, when it is 
> not being carried around is also connected to a CAT5 cable).  The only 
> items that stay WiFi only are those that have no ethernet jacks (cell 
> phones).

Are there phone models that somehow feature an 8P8C socket?

(I suppose these days it might also be possible to do wired networking
with a USB NIC?)

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Nuno Silva
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