Ok serious question I just picked up this Ethernet splitter and I was hoping to split pre router in an effort to bypass the router and bump speeds slightly. Is that actually going to work or am I just dreaming?
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Your router uses NAT (network address translation) to share a single IP, allocated to your internet connection, among many clients, such as your gaming PC.
So what you are attempting is not going to work.
Those Ethernet splitters also don’t let you pass the input signal to more than one output at a time - you couldn’t have the router and the PC on at the same time.
Yup, need a switch if you want to have multiple outputs
Or another router to act as a switch
Go ahead and pull em in the wall! Don’t be scared. Worst case the world is ending anyways
I holes in your pants became fashionable, so too can holes in your walls!
Nah we got rings and plates to look all pretty. May be a couple extra blank plates in your house once it’s all said and done depending on how hard it is to fish wires around, but, again the world is ending so it’s cool
