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