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Jedi Knight
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Let me see if I can explain this correctly. Can you split a routed line with another router? Here's my setup. I have a hardline run into the boys room for their Xbox and have a desktop that is wireless. I believe the wireless device has gone bad and I would like to hardwire it, but I don't want to run more Cat 5. I have another router that I could put in their room and "split" the cable. Can this be done?
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I have used a hub to split the Cat5 lines in more directions, but have not tried a router. I kept my house hardwired and put a wireless router out of the original router to work with a laptop and the Wii only. I don't know if this helps or not, but I did it as I could not get long enough premade Cat5 cables to reach from the router to the master bedroom of our ranch home.
 
Should be no problem. I've "daisy chained" plenty of 'em. Some degradation may be noticed but it won't be much.

Dave! How long a cable do ya need?!?!
 
Funny! We are going through the same thing in our household right now too with my son just home from the military! Just came down from the attic stringing ether-net cable from router to router and then splits etc. to get three different computer setups to all work flawlessly! So far things seem to be going well! Oh the travails of virtual reality!!! :devilgrin:
 
Routers are programmable and are designed to connect and manage traffice between networks. For the home, a simple hub is all you need to add new devices, but if you have a router, you can do that as well, but it is not really what they were designed to do. For the home, I prefer wireless.
 
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