Network Guru's, Ethernet Y-jack?

[Nexson 10+ year member]

Ok, well here's the situation. I have my router located on one side of the house in the computer office room, and then I have my room located on the total other end of the house. After being fed up with wireless Internet connection, I decided to buy 100ft Ethernet cable and run it through my attic down the wall, under the rug to my computer in my room on the other side of the house to make it a wired connection.

Now here's the question, I have my ps3 that I want to hook up to the network/Internet which is in my room, I don't want to have to buy another 100ft Ethernet cable $65, and go through the hassle of almost dying in the attic to run the cable, then find the correct wall to put it down to pull it out next to my tv in my room. Is there such thing as a Ethernet Y-jack, so that I can plug the Ethernet cable from the ps3 in my room (5ft away from the computer) into one side of the jack and the computer Ethernet cable coming from the router on the other side of the house into the other side of the jack, and then plug the other end of the jack into the computer itself. Is there such thing as this Ethernet y-jack, or any other suggestions?

Thanks

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[DragonCub 10+ year member]

No such thing as a Ethernet y-jack. The ethernet cable is plugged into a port in your router which has an assigned IP. Two devices on the same network can not have the same IP. You going to have to run another 100ft of wire or get a switch.

 

[Nexson 10+ year member]

ok so most likely I will have to run that 100ft cable, but. you said or get a switch? what will that do?

 

[Death By Bass 10+ year member]

http://cgi.ebay.com/2wire-Desktop-5-Port-Fast-Ethernet-Network-Switch_W0QQitemZ260089718341QQihZ016QQcategoryZ51268QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem?hash=item260089718341

 

[jaco 10+ year member]

get another cheap NIC (ethernet 10/100) card and put in your computer and fire wall and share that connection in the net work connections, in control panel.

then get a cross over cable to run your ps3 or x box.

best buy has cross over cables, they have on the package from computer to computer.

only thing is your computer has to be on for that connection to work.

 

[jaco 10+ year member]

i was just throwing a cheap fast alternate solution.

alot of people have spare computer parts laying around. LOL

 

[dumple 5,000+ posts]

i have a switch in my room laptop desktop and xbox all hooked up to it prolly the best way to go

 

[Nexson 10+ year member]

but with the switch, I can only use either the computer at one time or the ps3 at one time right, not together right?

 

[Death By Bass 10+ year member]

standard 100mbit network only uses 4 of the 8 conductors in the cable.

i do believe you can get an adapter to have two completely separate network connections via the one network cable.

it would be an adapter on each end of the cable.

the other option, would be to rewire the cable yourself, putting two plugs on each end //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

 

[elementxero 10+ year member]

opps. . . yes that can get very tricky if ur going router to router. I dont recommend it. Im sorry. Like Jmac suggested, its best and easiest to get a switch.

Signed. I did the router to router shit before simply because thats all I had around and it was definitely a big hassle. Switch + 2 cables is so cheap and easy that you would be insane to do anything else.

 

[elementxero 10+ year member]

standard 100mbit network only uses 4 of the 8 conductors in the cable.
i do believe you can get an adapter to have two completely separate network connections via the one network cable.

it would be an adapter on each end of the cable.

the other option, would be to rewire the cable yourself, putting two plugs on each end //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

lol that would be an interesting project but that's such an over the top solution for a 10 cent problem

 

[Nexson 10+ year member]

ok, sry for being a little noob here, but basically with the switch, I plug my ethernet cable from the router into one port, then switch to the computer, then switch to the ps3?

 

[dumple 5,000+ posts]

yepi have my network in on port one then xbox laptop then desktop in 2 3 and 4 works like a charm

 

[Nexson 10+ year member]

wow, sounds great, I am going to pick one of these up, and lets ya know how it works out for me!