calgarychris
Occasional Visitor
Hi,
I have confirmed that I have cat5 running behind the walls (yay!) that is currently unconnected to RJ-45 connections. I am going to get him to do it but had a couple of questions:
1. The contractor's saying that you can basically split the cable run into two separate connections since there are two wire pairs. Is there any issue with doing this, performance wise? I would lose telephone at that junction I guess, since some of the cable is begin used for pstn
2. All of the cables run back to a central point. If I were to split the cable as above and have two connections run back to the central point, my question is, how do these work if they're both connected to switches at both ends. I'm thinking I would have a small 8 port switch at one end and a 16 or 24 port at the other end.
I guess what I'm asking in #2 above is, I get that if I have a single connection into a switch the devices plugged into that would share the bandwidth, but how does it work with two? Is the load split between the two, do you need specific hardware to do that?
Thanks, hopefully that makes sense.
Cheers
I have confirmed that I have cat5 running behind the walls (yay!) that is currently unconnected to RJ-45 connections. I am going to get him to do it but had a couple of questions:
1. The contractor's saying that you can basically split the cable run into two separate connections since there are two wire pairs. Is there any issue with doing this, performance wise? I would lose telephone at that junction I guess, since some of the cable is begin used for pstn
2. All of the cables run back to a central point. If I were to split the cable as above and have two connections run back to the central point, my question is, how do these work if they're both connected to switches at both ends. I'm thinking I would have a small 8 port switch at one end and a 16 or 24 port at the other end.
I guess what I'm asking in #2 above is, I get that if I have a single connection into a switch the devices plugged into that would share the bandwidth, but how does it work with two? Is the load split between the two, do you need specific hardware to do that?
Thanks, hopefully that makes sense.
Cheers