OT: cat 5 cable, ethernet, connection jacks

[James Knott]

Lennart Sorensen wrote:


> I think the summary is:
> You could run two connections on the single wire by splitting it at the
> hub and at the first computer, but that you are likely to have a bad
> link most of the time due to cross talk noise so it's a bad idea.  The
> thing about a bus is completely wrong for twisted pair ethernet.
> 
> I wouldn't recomend trying to save on the wire.

Sharing a cable is done commercially and there are even patch panels 
designed to support it.
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