Wednesday, August 18, 2010

Can 2 computers share 1 cable? like a phone spliter.?

There's 4 ports on the back of the router for cable connections. There's 8 contacts in the ports and 8 wires in the cable. a long time ago I heard you can run two computers off of one cable. Is this true? and how is it done...I'm thinking of a spliter like the one you use for a phone (just that small connector).



Can 2 computers share 1 cable? like a phone spliter.?virus removal



Usually you would use one cable for each port on the router but you can use a hub to connect several devices to one port on the router. You would have one cable connecting the router to the hub and have several devices connecting to the hub.



Can 2 computers share 1 cable? like a phone spliter.?anti virus protection



Hmmm, maybe, but routers work off IP addresses. Me thinks you'd have to leave IP assignments on auto and that will induce glitches and hangs. Ethernet is not telephone if that's what you mean. And, you'll notice on the back of recent Ethernet cards there is a phone handset in a circle with a line through it. (meaning NOT the modem).
The simple answer is NO. Its against the Ethernet Specs.



What I am telling you below is purely for argumentative purpose. Let no one misunderstand me that I propose to do this or endorse this:

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