Weird cable request/recommendation

Steveocee

Steveocee

Steveocee

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I have a weird need to run 2 cat 5e's into an outbuilding however there is already a single cat5e cable run out.

Is there such a cable I can replace the current single 1 with and wire 2 cat5e connectors off?

It's a long winded story but I can't run a second out there and I can't put a switch at the other end either.

Apologies for the vagueness.
 
It might help if you become less vague, as any suggestion of how to split the cable will depend what you want to put on the end of it. If it can't be a switch then I've got to assume that you're using the cable for something other than ethernet, at which point cable economisers aren't going to work for you.


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Steveocee said:
Is there such a cable I can replace the current single 1 with and wire 2 cat5e connectors off?
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Steveocee said:
I can't run a second out there
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Which one is it? You can't run another cable or you can replace the current cable?
 
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If you can replace the existing cable, why can't you replace it with 2 cables?

Providing that you only need 100Mbps to each device, you can get doublers/splitters (GbE needs all 4 pairs in a Cat5e cable but fast ethernet only needs 2 pairs).
Alternatively if the reason that you can't use a switch is because of lack of power at the far end, there might be switches that can be powered via the cat5e cable itself (PoE).
 
The cable will be used for ethernet. The current cable is run through an interior room and a hole was drilled through a UPVC door frame, I have no chance of drilling another hole in it.

I have power at the other end but (here is why I wanted to be vague) I want to have 2 independent runs to the outbuilding, call it fault tolerance or I may aggregate them to achieve a higher speed.

I looked into 10GB or fiber but I need them to hub off my Asus router so that puts them out.

I have server in the outbuilding doing 2 jobs, hosting my own media and secondly I host multiple small game servers and voip clients for myself and friends. I have dual NIC on the server and want to assign certain apps to certain connections. I just don't want both sets of "requests" running on the same cable.
 
One cable run will give you no redundancy, it doesn't matter how you want to split that one cable up into 2x 100Mbps links or play around with VLANs etc. You aren't getting fault tolerance as long as you are running one cable down one route.

Just put a switch on the end of it. Look at a point-to-point wireless link if you really have to have something fail over and throwing a long patch cable out the window isn't an option, but I really don't think you need redundancy between your house and a shed. There is no point running different types of traffic down different links if both those links end up at the same place once they get into your house.
 
Your other options are a multicore Cat6 cable but that will have a larger diameter than a standard cable so won't fit through the hole in your window frame, or a fibre which you will never get through the hole with the connectors on, and won't like the price for someone to come and put ends on for you.
 
You can split a cat5e cable into 2x cables, they'll be 100mbit max though.

Best option is just run another cable, or add a switch to the other end
 
OK thanks for the opinions people. I think I may go with wiggling a file around in the hole and try to "squeeze" another run of cable into the gap.

Thanks
 
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