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A couple of years ago I ran an eithernet cable from my router in one
end of the house to a room being converted into a study at the other
end of the house. At the time I allowed a couple of feet of extra cable
but now I'm rearranging the room and need an additional three feet of
cable. Do they make something like a double female eithernet cable
connector that would allow me to connect an additonal cable with the
traditional two male connectors? Thanks.

A couple of years ago I ran an eithernet cable from my router in one
end of the house to a room being converted into a study at the other
end of the house. At the time I allowed a couple of feet of extra cable
but now I'm rearranging the room and need an additional three feet of
cable. Do they make something like a double female eithernet cable
connector that would allow me to connect an additonal cable with the
traditional two male connectors? Thanks.

"Old Swab" <marker@indiana.edu> writes:

A couple of years ago I ran an eithernet cable from my router in one
end of the house to a room being converted into a study at the other
end of the house. At the time I allowed a couple of feet of extra cable
but now I'm rearranging the room and need an additional three feet of
cable. Do they make something like a double female eithernet cable
connector that would allow me to connect an additonal cable with the
traditional two male connectors? Thanks.

Just go to an electronics store (aka Jaycar, Dick Smith, etc. here in
Australia) and look for an RJ45 female-to-female adaptor. That will couple
two RJ45 ethernet leads together. I doubt it complies with any of the
ethernet or ISDN standards, but it's grass-roots networking and it works!

I use them regularly when fiddling with network arrangements and I need to
extend a cable a short distance to reach a device but have plenty of short
ethernet leads on hand.

Craig.