Ethernet Socket Adapter/Splitter/Dual?

mikey72

What's at the other end of the socket?

Hammyman

AndyPandyPoos wrote: »

Answers like that really grind.

So do all the incorrect ones above mine which people wouldn't have posted if they used Google....

fwor

Hammyman wrote: »

So do all the incorrect ones above mine

There were no fundamentally incorrect answers above yours except the one that said that the ~only~ solution was a local switch.

Your answer is only correct if your assumption that there is a spare port at the other end of the cable that the socket is wired to is correct. It may or may not be - the OP has not said yet.

Enterprise_1701C

If you have a wall socket it must go to a modem, or to a switch, if that has a spare socket then it would be best to simply put another cable in, or even run a very long patch cable between the modem or switch and the less mobile item.

System

if you split and reduce the speed dramatically it might have an impact on the ps3 if you are gaming online (usually even better if you set up fort forwarding etc on the router) so a switch would be the best option in my eyes (or if you get an old bt homehub you can set that up to operate as a switch and wireless access point - i got on from ebay for 99p + 2.50 delivery!)

mikey72

Hammyman wrote: »

So do all the incorrect ones above mine which people wouldn't have posted if they used Google....

Depends on what's on the other end of the socket.
(Maybe you shouldn't use google to answer the op, and should have left this one to the the others)

kwikbreaks

Jane_Blackford wrote: »

If you have a wall socket it must go to a modem, or to a switch, if that has a spare socket then it would be best to simply put another cable in, or even run a very long patch cable between the modem or switch and the less mobile item.

No. In that instance hammyman's suggested splitters would be the simplest option unless gigabit capability is needed (that's what needs all 4 pairs).

Until I saw hammyman's post I didn't know that splitters could be bought although I was aware that just two pairs will run 100Mbps as I had a 4 core patch cable which naffed me up on my gigabit lan and got unceremoniously binned.

Bogtrotter

the_r_sole wrote: »

if you split and reduce the speed dramatically it might have an impact on the ps3 if you are gaming online

I seriously doubt that any speed decrease due to splitting the cables will have minimal effect on the PS3. The speed of the split cable would still be well in excess of whatever your ISP provides.

I have used these splitters on many occasions and all have certified at 100MBit with a Fluke network tester.

DVardysShadow

Fifer wrote: »

If your laptop has a PCMCIA/Cardbus slot, you might be able to add a second ethenet port using one of these. Someone else might be able to advise if the laptop would act as a switch between the mobo ethenet port and the Cardbus port. It would be cheap and require no additional power socket if it works.

The laptop could not act as a switch, it would have to operate as a router. Fiddly to set up a computer as a router, can be done, but you'd have to choose between sorting out a DHCP server to run on the laptop or going with static IP addressing. Not recommended.