Wiring a House

[jpc82]

If you have two rooms on the second floor right beside each other and plan to run the network cable to the basement. Is is possible to do this with one wire?

Could you run one wire from the basement to one of the rooms, connect it to a female Cat5 wall outlet, and then from there run it to the other room? Does a femaile wall outlet allow you to have 2 connections attached to it?

[Doug Smith]

you have 2 possible answers
1- take the 1 cable and get a network hub or switch and use the 1 cable to feed the hub - then you can have as many connections as the hub has

2- take the cable and split the 4 pairs into 2-2pairs - then use the blue and orange to feed pin 1,2 3,6 and then use the green brown to feed the other jack 1,2 3,6 - do this on both ends and you can get 2 network connections

if i was you i would try to pull 2 cables or use a switch, splitting the pairs is only done if all else fails.

good luck.

[Dr.Dan]

If you're going to pull cable, do 2 lines.

It's not any more work, and will save you allot of headaches.

If you already had one and you wanted two, then I would look at other options, but since you're going to be running a line anyway; run 2 lines. :)

[Steve]

run 2 lines

[sargpep]

Dr Dan and Steve are right, 2 lines is the best way to go, if you don't want to do that go wireless.

[ChrisK]

ya 2 lines is best.

I forgot about it when I did my wiring in the house so now I have 1 line doing 100 MB up/down. When the best way to do it is having 1 line 100 mb up and another 100mb down

less network traffic.