oceansoul
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Registered: 19th Jun 06
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In our office at work we have 7 desks, 6 of us using laptops each with an RJ45 network connection. Now the old guy at the 7th desk has been given a laptop and wants to get it all sorted and set up etc the help desk said it would take up to 3 weeks to get someone into run a new network cable back to the Router/Switch (and were not aloud to do it), but ive just found somthing like this
http://www.euronetwork.co.uk/acatalog/Adaptors_Networking_RJ45_Splitter_1x_M_2xF_8_way_15-1057.html
Could we put one of them into one of our Network Ports and then plug 2 laptops in? How does it work? I know we could put a Switch in, but that means expense and dont know what the corprate network would think of that lol
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Pablo
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http://www.misco.co.uk/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=236063&CatId=2733
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noshua
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An unmanaged switch should work - plug and play.
As for the splitter you linked to, on some websites it states that only one connection will work at a time - although I've definitely read somewhere that both connections will work at the same time due to each connection using half of the wires each - something along those lines.
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John
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Depends on the setup.
In our place if you plug more than one device into a port it shuts the port down.
I'd just wait for the IT guys tbh, it might not work on the network and they probably won't be happy.
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pow
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Registered: 11th Sep 06
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Same as John, your Cisco switches are designed to shutdown if another device is plugged in
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oceansoul
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Cool cheers guys  its just so this old geezer can get on the internet at work lol
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