Ethernet question

[fazersharp]

SORRY to the OP for hijacking but im hoping that my issue will also be helping you as it sounds the same in that we have ran out of ports

i have to get under the cupboard thread the one i want up - yank out the router carrying all other cables with it and swap.

That's madness, surely!

Yep thats why it is set up with one of the 4 ports with a pernament 1mtr cable with a splitter on the end. I wanted to use the splitter to run two things off it but it didnt work so now the splitter is just used as a cable connector or extention and just inside the door easy to get to without moving anything i can swap cables.

I tried a spliter to go from 1 of the ports and then plug two devices in to that, and yes that is right it dont work

As long as your switch has got a autosensing port or an uplink port then you can plug a router/modem in and it will work.

Dont get it are you saying this will do what I want, without itself being powered, I have 3 things that use the net all the time and 4 ports with the 4th port useing my 1m "tail" from which I manaually swap 3 other devices when I need them--- I only need one of these 3 at a time to be working