Adding a wifi access point help!

Empor

At work we have a switch box in our server room, it says on it it's a Netgear ProSAFE JGS524PE. This currently connects to 6 wifi access points around the building.

We want to add two more in more or less the same place (either side of a thick wall). They have about 50 metres to run. Do we have to run two separate cables for these, or can we run just one cable and have some sort of splitter at the end?

I'm not great with IT so please go gentle...

wongataa

You could run one cable and use a switch to connect two devices to it.

AndyPix

As above just put a dinky little 5 port switch at the far end.
Obviously if your AP's are PoE then you will have to take this into account

Syman

to be honest, for the cost of cat5 cable, if you are putting in one cable, you may just as well pull two through. probably cheaper than adding a switch.