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.
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mailto:plug-discuss-bounces@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of Dale
Farnsworth
Sent: Friday, May 18, 2007 7:19 AM
To:
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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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