RE: Spliting a cat5 cable? (Tivo Vs Cat5)

["Keith Doxey" <ukha@xxxxxxx>]

The original 100Mbps required 4 pairs but modern 100Mbit runs on just
two.

You can get splitters that route the two ethernet pairs Green and Orange
to
one socket and then route the Blue and Brown pairs to what should be
the
Green and Orange pairs on the second socket. They enable you to run two
physically separate ethernet connections over a single CAT5 cable but
my
recommendation would be to use a small hub as they are so cheap
nowadays
that the cost will only be slightly higher than two of the splitters and
you
can then have 4 or 5 ethernet devices at that location.

Keith

-----Original Message-----
From: Steven Edgar [mailto:yahoogroups@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 07 November 2002 19:56
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Spliting a cat5 cable? (Tivo Vs Cat5)



> 1) do these things really work (for 100megabit)?

'fraid not. You can get 10Mbps as the spec for this requires only two
wire
pairs, but the 100Mbps spec requires all four pairs.

Steven


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