Timeline for 100BASE-T two devices on a single ethernet port
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| Oct 20, 2016 at 20:30 | comment | added | zeqL | I edited my post with a picture. If you keep the wire pair twisted as long as you can, I think it will be ok. It is not an ideal setup so achieving 100 meters is not guaranteed but on short distance (10-20m) it will be totally ok. I've made some ugly toolings with ethernet and it always worked fine on short distance (< 20m). It's very tolerant. | |
| Oct 20, 2016 at 20:22 | history | edited | zeqL | CC BY-SA 3.0 | Added image for comment |
| Oct 19, 2016 at 23:45 | vote | accept | opsec | ||
| Oct 19, 2016 at 23:45 | comment | added | opsec | Thank you for the answer! I think this is exactly what I am going to do. Either I will try and separate the port from the magnetics and use that or I will get two small transformers and just wire them to a single port. The two ports are <4" away from each other and if interfaced separately would also be very short runs <4'. Do you think with such short runs I would be able to do 100Mbps? Could you please expand on this: "or, if your boards are not too far from each other, use a single Ethernet cable and solder two pairs on each board." Don't quite get what the difference is. | |
| Oct 19, 2016 at 21:34 | history | answered | zeqL | CC BY-SA 3.0 |