On Wednesday 19 September 2001 14:28, Brian wrote: > I realize this is a bad idea, but in my application I think it will be > Good Enough(tm). In my fiancee's apartment I have a Cat5 cable running > from the living room to the geek lounge. The cable modem is in the living > room because there's no cable TV connectors in any other room. I now want > to put a WebTV type component into the entertainment center but it needs > to be inside the firewall. Is there such thing as a Y adapter that I > could split 1 Cat5 run into 2 ethernet lines? Yes, I realize it would > break the standard but seeing as how one line is connecting to my cable > modem (2 Mb/sec max) and the other will be 10 Mb/s, it should work. Does > anybody sell these or is this just a dumb idea and I should have no > business trying? > > -Brian -- Buy a hub. --- Shawn "Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do." -Bruce Lee