On Tue, 06 Feb 2018 20:29:50 +0000 (GMT), "Rodney Pont"
wrote:

On Tue, 06 Feb 2018 14:37:19 -0500, Seymore4Head wrote:

It's a shame that Cat5 can't use piggyback connections. It would be
nice to share one Cat 5 between devices as I wouldn't ever be using
both devices at the same time.

You can send several connections at once down cat5 if you are using it
for ethernet, you just need a switch (or even a hub) at the tv end to
connect both devices. Your incoming cat5 goes into one port and you
have two short cables to connect to your two devices, just as you do
with a USB hub. You can just unplug one and plug in the other if you
wish as well but that will wear out the connections before very long.

I knew that you could use a hub. I was thinking more along the lines
of something like a phone splitter.

It would be nice if devices came with an in and an out like a modem
used to. Actually I guess modems still do that, but I haven't used
one in ages.