my router got hit by lightning last night... so i bought a linksys and threw out my old belkin

now. internet had worked flawlessly for years with the same setup untouched in my garage... when i got up there to switch it out i found a 4 wire ethernet cable connected between my router and my modem.

regular ethernet cable... only 4 wires...
and it worked...


i thought you had to have all 8 to get signal.. am i right??