Context:
One office, one ethernet jack and two computers, or
One living room, one ethernet jack and one HTPC and one XBox.
If you can't realistically (without tearing apart walls or renting a scissor lift) pull one more ethernet cable from the patch panel to the office / living room etc. you can consider the use of an Ethernet "splitter".
I'm assuming all the four pairs of the ethernet cables are properly connected within the ethernet wallplate and the patch panel.
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Signing UpStep 1What you need
- Two RJ45 Crimpable Plug
- Four RJ-45 keystone jack
- Short Ethernet Cable Scrap (approximately 2 feet)
- RJ45 Crimp Tool
- Craft knife
- 110 Punch Down Tool
- Loctite Super Glue
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I'll admit, it's not a "big complicated project", but there's no reason to pick at people.
A simpler option is to just buy a network hub, they're pretty cheap (often $20 or less). This is similar to an un-powered hub, though this is incompatible with PoE and Gigabit.
As for DBLinuxLover's comment, what Instructable has he ever done ? 'nough said...
Engineers hoard the things at my new place of work. It's an easy tool to use to sniff network traffic.
1 White/Orange to pin 1
2 Orange to pin 2
3 White/Green to pin 3
6 Green to pin 6
4 Blue to pin 2
5 White/Blue to pin 1
7 White/Brown to pin 3
8 Brown to pin 6
The key is too keep the pairs together. Regards
I have attempted to do this to connect 2 computers to one modem, but it is not working. Only the oranges and greens are working. I'd like to use this concept to run 1 ethernet cable to my bedroom (from the basement) to connect 2 computers to the internet. Am I missing something or a step? I didn't really understand step 6...
I realise this is a couple of years old, but I wondered if I might ask you to check the text against the pictire.
Specifically, assuming the top left connector in the pic is pin 1, the colours don't match the text.
Your input would be greatly appreciated.
Regards, Phil
Is performance reduced at all?
And where do you get your keystone jacks? They look really nice.
568A or 568B ?
then the connections might change....
Yes the 568A and 568B are different connections, but that's on the cable or termination on the jacks. All Jacks are built the same hence "structured cabling." You decide which wires are for what. In this case, you disregard the 568A or 568B standard when you configure the Splitter/Sharer.
We're borrowing the Unused 4 wires to run the 2nd 10/100MB Ethernet connection. PIN number 1,2,3, and 6 are the regular 10/100 on the 1st connection. We are borrowing the unused PIN number 4,5,7, and 8 to run the 2nd connection on the 8 wires on the Main(middle) cable. Then we swap back the wires for PIN 4,5,7, 8 to PIN 1,2,3, 6 for the 2nd jack which connects to the 2nd Device/Node because all Nodes and Devices will only sync with PIN 1,2,3, 6 on their RJ45 port to get 10/100MBps Ethernet connection.