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by cpgxiii 1661 days ago
Since most of the 1000Base-T1 gear is still unreasonably expensive/effectively impossible to get quickly in small quantities, you can run 100mbps and 1gbps Ethernet over "reasonable" lengths of single twisted pair using MoCA adapters plus coax->twisted pair baluns. Achievable cable length will obviously depend on EMI conditions, but I've had reasonable success with this method on twisted pairs in industrial robots.
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GIGA G4201TM modems are built for exactly this, using the G.hn standard, over a single pair. I’ve been using these to avoid digging into walls to replace wiring — they claim to sync at up to 1700mbps and, even in the real world, I’m saturating the 1000BASE-T ports.