Was going to buy this from Officeworks 2 weeks ago for $11.40 for a 1x1 joiner…
http://www.officeworks.com.au/retail/products/Technology/Com…
even eBay couldn't match this deal, @ 2 for the price of 1 !
2 for $1.99 is a BARGAIN IMHO !
*Remember to add the 2 Pack to the cart !
*This is NOT A HUB/SWITCH, Just JOIN OR SPLIT a connection !
*This works for CAT 5, 5e & 6 cable types !
NO, Ethernet doesn't work like that. You cannot "share" a connection.
You need to have long cable, THEN switch and the 2 devices connected to the switch. In your idea, you have the switch in the wrong place.
No it won't work, bcoz this doesn't have DHCP to isolate the two systems, If you plug 2 PC's into it you will see an "IP conflict" message.
I've really only used this as a Joiner and I keep the second port free.
The second port can be used as a fail over.
TWOPCs=====>————<=====SWITCH
For the above to work you can get 4x single Joiners and plug the cords individually.
TWOPCs=====:=========:=====SWITCH
4 x Joiners cost $3.72 from eBay.
Tried one of these a while back to split a LAN cable into two separate devices. Never worked properly & wasted more time than they are worth. Was also told these only work with 100mb LAN speeds. Won't work with Gigabit 1000mb LAN speeds.
Of course they won't work that way, because they are not intended for that. Kind of like if you plugged your 3 ethernet cables into a banana, that wouldn't work either. :-D
And these will work at Gigabit speeds, as they have all 8 connections wired through. If they were for phone, they would have 2 (one pair) and if they were 100mb ethernet, they would have 4 (2 pairs)… but these have 8 (4 pairs), so they are 1000mb.
I doubt these will work for GB as a splitter or a joiner. 100Mb connections use 4 of the 8 wires so you can split an 8 wire connection out to two 4 wire connections. GigaBit uses all 8 wires. They will work as a 100Mb joiner but not Gigabit. They are intended to allow two ethernet connections across a single long CAT5 cable. You need a splitter at source (switch, hub etc) and one at the other end where you want to split out to two devices (PC's etc).
Yes, these work as 1Gbps speeds…, I've used them for 5yrs before mine broke and lets hope these cheapies work well !
100Mb connections use 4 of the 8 wires so you can split an 8 wire connection out to two 4 wire connections
They are not wired this way.
GigaBit uses all 8 wires. They will work as a 100Mb joiner but not Gigabit.
They DO HAVE 8 connectors, all wired straight through.
So they will work for 100mb and 1000mb connections, but only as a joiner. But NOT as a splitter, except for phone (2 phones in parallel).
I stand corrected. I assumed they were similar to the ones I have used ( http://www.jaycar.com.au/productView.asp?ID=YT6090&keywords=… ). These only have 4 wires per output. I can't see any reason for someone to make a product like this with all 8 wires wired to each output port but I have been wrong before. They would work as joiners but why not just use a joiner.
They would work as joiners but why not just use a joiner.
bcoz, for the extra 13c getting 2 double adapters is cheaper than 2 single adapters… ;)
What about the $4.99 kg bananas in Coles? Would they be suitable?
These are only good for joining one LAN cable to one other LAN cable. If you attempt to connect two LAN devices to one switch port using this device a world of hurt awaits you.
OTOH these can be used for telephone and similar device splitting. A lot of places use RJ45s for all their devices and the appropriate RJ-45 to RJ11/12 pigtails are employed at the final device.
Note the comments on the site - if you are using it for Ethernet (networking) this is NOT a hub or splitter, and cannot be used to connect 2 devices onto one ethernet wire.
You can buy a smaller neater Ethernet connector from eBay for 93 CENTS EACH delivered - so this is not really a bargain at all. See http://tinyurl.com/7y93cza for single joiners
thats a 1x1 joiner, its still NOT a HUB/Switch/Router, no difference really as I've used both… lol
edit: besides they show u a picture of 2 when they only give you 1…, this is $1.99 for 2 double adapters, that is $1.86 for 2 single adapters. A double adapter has redundancy…
thats a 1x1 joiner, its still NOT a HUB/Switch/Router, no difference really as I've used both… lol
Good on you, how clever you must feel! I am glad you are restating the obvious that a < $1 cable joiner is not a Ethernet Hub.
Do you like to debate just for the sake of it?
no i just reinstated that a 1x1 joiner doesn't do anything different.
I'll just end this deal no one is interested anyways…lol
Nothing wrong with the deal - it's a good price for what this thing is.
I am looking at straight joiners on eBay at the moment, and apart from the auction I linked to, this deal is cheaper. I just don't want an open port to collect dust, inserts, etc.
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Can I use these to join 10m Patch cable + another 10m Patch cable to connect my computer on the other room to the internet?
I was about to get a 20m patch cable, but if these work well I will these.
cheers
Yes, but a new 20m cable doesn't cost that much either.
Yes, the use of this is to pretty much extend the cable without an intermediate HUB/Switch/Router. In fact a joiner CAN produce better results than going via a HUB/Switch/Router, in my case there was no difference, latency stayed the same, jitter had no effect neither did I lose any packets when pinging.*I had a joiner that broke…
I've played BF3 a lot and use SSH a lot with no issues, it really works if you don't want to buy another cable or HUB/Switch/Router.
I remember the good old days when ethernet had collision detection and algorithms for sharing a cable. A pity it was only 10Mbps.
I'd rather forget the times when somebody's tap on the coax caused problems for all the other users on the same segment.
10BaseT star network FTW!!
Elija, can I use this to connect two systems via 1 cable to a switch?
IE two systems to adapter, long cable, adaper two cables to switch. Switch is only 100mbit.