[EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Nemeth) wrote:
>
> On Mar 8, 6:25pm, "Priscilla Oppenheimer" wrote:
> } Sim, CT (Chee Tong) wrote:
> } >
> } > Hi.. I have a friend staying in the hostel room which has
> a wall port
> } > (RJ45) link to the internet. As there are two persons (two
> PC) staying in
> } > that room. So they bought a cable splitter. (one side
> with one female RJ45
> } > jack and another side with two female RJ45 jack). So that
> two PCs can
> } > connect to internet at the same time,
> }
> } Are you sure it's Ethernet at your friend's hostel? Maybe
> it's ISDN or
> } something?? Someone will correct me if that's a dumb
> statement. :-)
>
> There are a number of hotels that are starting to provide
> Ethernet
> jacks in the rooms. Especially ones that cater to business
> travellers. I've nevered heard of a hotel using ISDN.
I have stayed at hotels that offer ISDN, especially overseas. I wasn't
curious about whether hotels or hostels (he actually said hostels) might
provide ISDN. I was curious about whether you could somehow break out an
ISDN interface into 2. Once again, sorry if it's a stupid question.
Priscilla
> I
> wouldn't
> think it would be cost effective. Also, if it was ISDN, I
> would have
> expected an ISDN telephone to be plugged into it.
>
> } If it was Ethernet, the only way it could have worked is if
> the second pair
> } happened to go to another switch port. You can't turn one
> switch port into
> } two simply by splitting the cable.
>
> Although, you can do this, I wouldn't advise it except in
> cases
> where it would be very difficult to run additional cable.
> Also, if
> this was the case, I would expect the hotel to provide the
> splitter, or
> better yet, install a dual outlet jack.
>
> } As Chuck said, buy a hub. A 4-port hub is really cheap (at
> least in the
> } U.S!? ;-)
>
> I think I said that. I don't know about the US, but in
> Canada,
> you can buy a cheap mini-hub for less then $50 CDN (I haven't
> been
> following the price lately, since it is getting to the point
> where I
> expect hubs to disappear from the market to be replaced by cheap
> switches {small dumb switches are starting to get really
> cheap}).
>
> }-- End of excerpt from "Priscilla Oppenheimer"
>
>
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