Any networking guys on here who could give me some advice?
I've run a cat5 cable from my router, out through the wall, around the outside of my house, then into my son's room. We installed a network socket in his room and he plugs his pc into that socket. This all works fine.
I need a second socket now on the opposite side of his room. The cable routed around the outside of the house passes where this new socket needs to be. Is it technically possible to take a spur off that network cable to a new socket location, or is that simply not how networking works?
If not, can I run a cable from the existing socket to the new location, whilst leaving the other socket active (i.e. in total, two devices might be plugged in simultaneously, one in each socket) or does each socket need its own wire?
I've run a cat5 cable from my router, out through the wall, around the outside of my house, then into my son's room. We installed a network socket in his room and he plugs his pc into that socket. This all works fine.
I need a second socket now on the opposite side of his room. The cable routed around the outside of the house passes where this new socket needs to be. Is it technically possible to take a spur off that network cable to a new socket location, or is that simply not how networking works?
If not, can I run a cable from the existing socket to the new location, whilst leaving the other socket active (i.e. in total, two devices might be plugged in simultaneously, one in each socket) or does each socket need its own wire?