Possible to split a cat 5 cable?

[Adam B]

Issue as follows:

Have a single cat 5e cable to chimney breast on which is mounted a TV plus a sky mini box plus a Sonos soundbar.

On other side of room are two Sonos play 1s and the sub which I would link together with the soundbar for reasonable surround sound.

Currently the cat cable plugs into the q mini only. Mini to TV via HDMI. Haven’t connected up the Sonos to anything yet but the soundbar has two cat 5 cable sockets.

Ideally I would like to have the TV, Q mini and Sonos soundbar all hard wired to router via the cat 5 cable, and all with their own IP addresses. Is that possible with only a single cable?

Running additional cables would be difficult and costly so not an option.

Thanks

[Adam B]

Brilliant

Thanks didn’t realise it was that simple - and each item plugged in gets recognised separately?

[Adam B]

Thanks again

Sorry last question

Any advantage in throwing financial caution to the wind and buying higher spec one?

TP-LINK TL-SG1005D 5-Ports Gigabit Ethernet Switch https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00ZOOJXEG/ref=cm_sw_r...

[Adam B]

matjk said:

Does the tv have 2 Ethernet ports ( or the sky q mini ?) if either does you could get away with no switch just daisy chain the lot together , internet in sonos , out of sonos to tv out of tv to sky q , you need just one more port on any other device

Interesting

TV not to sure, q mini no, but Sonos soundbar does could do as you say - does the daisy chain also show up 3 devices as separate?

The plus of the adapter is it leaves a couple of Ethernet sockets spare which I could use to plug in laptop etc

Edited by Adam B on Wednesday 17th October 07:45

[Adam B]

Yes agreed, just assessing the daisy chain alternative

[Adam B]

keirik said:

dont daisy chain, its more trouble than it's worth as half the time it won't work, just buy a switch

Exactly what I needed

Thanks all

[Adam B]

the AV guys fitted something complicated looking in the cellar on the AV rack with the router

something liek this
https://smile.amazon.co.uk/TP-LINK-T1600G-28PS-TL-...

I need something small and neat to fit behind a wall mount TV to split one cable, not something like the above!