I want to split one network cable into two

[Pepsi90919]

Originally posted by: RadiclDreamer

Originally posted by: Pepsi90919
what, with cat5? the orange and green pair are one network and the blue and brown are another.

Dead wrong

what do you mean 'dead wrong' ?

 

[Crucial]

spider?

 

[lokiju]

Originally posted by: Crucial
spider?

Damn this thing took off!

I haven't posted because I've been busy moving into the home I bought that is the cause of this question.

Basically, I have in my living room a cat 5e jack with my standard rj11 jack for phone pulled to basically behind where the couch sits, the issue is that it's on the opposite side of the room that I need it.

The home is pre-wired to a few rooms but what I want to do is get a cat 5 cable down the wall on the other side to come out by my coax since I need a wired connection for my media center.

All the cat 5 for the house runs through the attic and then down the walls to each room and all comes back to a patch panel in the garage. I was just trying to see if there was an easy way to jump off of one of those cables so I don't have to do a full home run pull for the additional connection I want and since it'd be in the attic that I would have wanted to do that split, I wouldn't have had access to a power outlet for a switch.


But I've come up with an easier solution of just pulling up the cat 5 from the master bed room and then dropping down the wall I need it for in the living room since I have the home covered in wi-fi and have no need for a wired connection in the master bedroom.

 

[bearxor]

Just to note:

At work, we wanted a free wireless access point to overlap our current network. In the building was fine, out in the warehouse was a little more difficult. I didn't want to rerun a second wire for it. It's a very long cable run that already requires a switch at the point of exit from the building.

In the server room, I unplugged the cable running to the switch, chopped the end off and split it in to two pairs each. One in to our network, the other in to the direct-to-the-cable-modem router. At the switch out of the building I did the same to each end of the wire and plugged them in to the same switch. Was two ports full, now 4. Since they are on seperate networks they can't see each other on the same switch. Out in the ware house I did the same and plugged the second pair in to a new wap. Works great.

Is it ideal? Up to spec? Need to be replaced when we move to GigE? Nope and yes, but it works fine.

 

[Jeff7181]

Originally posted by: Pepsi90919
what, with cat5? the orange and green pair are one network and the blue and brown are another.

OMFG nub! u r so rong lern2netwrk

 

[syee]

Looking for something like this?

Now, I'm not sure how this splitter is wired, so you probably need to do some research on this...