On Wed, 19 Sep 2001, 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? Are you saying use 2pair for one ethernet line and 2 for the other, or split 2pair into 2 ethernet lines? If you just want to do 2 separate ethernet lines, each using 2 pair, you can do it, but it's not recommended. Basically, just wire a jack up on each end.. one pair across 1-2, one pair across 3-6. -- Nate Carlson <natecars at real-time.com> | Phone : (952)943-8700 http://www.real-time.com | Fax : (952)943-8500