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Do the ethernet ports on an RAX80 include support for two separate channels or just one each?
I have a printer and a computer I want to hook up to my RAX80, but I only have one cat6 cable running between the router and the room they are in. I understand that in any ethernet cable, pins 1,2,3...
I may be misunderstanding your question, but couldn't you just plug a gigabit switch (like a small Netgear or other) and then plug both the computer and printer into one of the switch ports?
Yes, but I'd prefer a solution that doesn't involve yet another powered device to plug in. I'm also not sure about what kind of performance hit I'd expect to take by multiplexing two channels onto one with a switch. A passive solution that handles two independent channels all the way to the router must be the fastest and most efficient. If I were to make a prediction I'd say that the RAX80 router will not deal with more than one channel per jack, but will only regard pins 1,2,3, & 6 on the connector (ignoring 4,5,7, & 8), which will demand that I use another real splitter on that end and plug both cables coming out of it into two separate jacks on the router.