OT: cat 5 cable, ethernet, connection jacks

[Matt Price]

On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 12:13:26PM -0500, Matt Price wrote:
> hey folks,
> 
> Hope it's ok if I ask a networking question here... I'm planning to
> lay a bunch of ethernet cable in a room.  I have these fancy Leviton
> RJ45 female jacks and am running the cable through wolding, so having
> many cables come out of a hub is a royal pain.  The computers in the
> room are arrayed along a straight line.  Is it at all possible to use
> the RJ45 jack as a simple junction connecting two pieces of cat 5
> cable?  This would look something like this:
> 
> 
> |hub|--------------|rj45 plug|-----------------|rj45 plug|
> 		      |				  |
> 		      |				  |
> 		      |				  |
> 		 Computer		       Computer	       
> 
> I imagine this is impossible, or people would do it all the time
> instead of using hubs...  anyway, if someone can explain to me at
> least why it doesn't work, that'd be a help.
> 
> thanks,
> 
> matt

man, you guys are fast.

but so far I count 3 quite different explanations.  Any comments on
who's right?

Thanks again!
matt

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