Will this ethernet "splitter" work satisfactorily?

[Josef Lowder]

.
I ended up using a switch, as most everyone recommended, 
so for me, my original "splitter" question became a mute 
point and irrelevant.

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On Thu, 24 May 2007 19:18, Bryan O'Neal wrote
> 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.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: plug-discuss-bounces at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> [mailto:plug-discuss-bounces at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of Dale
> Farnsworth
> Sent: Friday, May 18, 2007 7:19 AM
> To: PLUG-discuss at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> 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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