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by ars 1341 days ago
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.

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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...