Will this ethernet "splitter" work satisfactorily?

[Dale Farnsworth]

In article <718E547AE93F08469653AC2CB76D0028011F07E8 at Server2003.Cornerstonehome.com> you write:
> How well did it work?  I was thinking about this just the other day.  I
> have two CAT6 cables and jacks in one cube.  In that cube I have a
> device requiring 3 of the four pairs and two devices requiring only 2
> pairs.  I thought about just re-punching on both ends to split the
> pairs, but not being very good with CAT6 and not having a high end
> tester, I felt I would end up destroying my lovely tested GIG-E
> connection. Since I plan on actually utilizing it in the next two years
> I really did not want to do that, and I am just too lazy to run a cable
> and make it look pretty.

Worked fine.  Instead of buying commercial splitters, we made them
ourselves.  (Well, actually someone in the company made them; I just
used them.)

-Dale

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> Farnsworth
> Sent: Friday, May 18, 2007 7:19 AM
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> Subject: Re: Will this ethernet "splitter" work satisfactorily?
> 
> > NO! I'm sorry... It makes NOOOOOOO SENSE!
> 
> This doesn't solve the originally posted problem, since using it still
> requires a switch, but once you understand what it does, it makes a lot
> of sense.
> 
> It doesn't splice two connections onto one.  Since 100bT only needs two
> twisted pairs and a cat-5 cable has 4 pairs, a cat-5 cable has enough
> wires to support two independent 100bT connections.  You put one of
> these
> "splitters" on each end of a cat 5 cable, and now it operates like two
> independent cables.  We used these regularly at Motorola where we needed
> an extra network connection in a cubicle, but didn't want to pull an
> extra
> cat-5 cable.  It won't work for gig-E because a single gig-E connection
> uses all 4 pairs of the cable.
> 
> Dale Farnsworth
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