A Consumer Product Review -- Cat 5 Splitters
If you are looking for the best deals on cat 5 splitters, we have compiled this short list of some of the best products currently for sale --
First stop is a network splitter from Bleil. This is an RJ-45, shielded 5 splitter. It receives a single male connector, and allows two additional cat 5 patch cables to branch off from it. This cat 5 splitter is fully compliant with the EIA/TIA-568 implementation.
Perhaps you have any home security or other system that requires a number of different monitors to be connected to one computer. If so you should check out this great product by Startech. It is their 4 port, Cat 5 VGA Video Splitter Distribution Amplifier Extender. Retail priced at $239, this innovative cat 5 splitter will allow for a multiple video monitor connection to a single PC. This is a 4-port cat 5 splitter system, so you can have up to one local monitor and four remote monitors connected up to your computer at one time!
Another interesting product is made by SCP. It is a 12-port cat 5e splitter -- specifically a patch panel. Priced at $59, this cat 5 splitter has a shipping weight of 2.8 pounds, and will allow you to split audio/video signals or control numerous devices. A major manufacturer of cat 5 splitters is Minicom. Their AV splitter allows you to take a single audio/video transmission and output it to different remote screens. With their cat 5 splitter, you can transmit this image and sound up to 360 feet! Many businesses -- such as banks and stock exchanges, conference rooms, training classrooms -- would find a cat 5 splitter useful. In addition, cat 5 splitters can also be used in airport terminals and bus and train stations, to simultaneously display arrival/departure information across multiple screens. Their cat 5 splitters are manufactured with a sturdy metal casing and come with a three-year warranty -- and they are also compatible with all major brands of computer sound cards. Finally, if you work with 5e cables, ABCcables has a cat 5e splitter, very economically priced at just $8.95 -- this is a 350 MHz splitter that accepts one male connector, and splits it into two female connectors -- this would allow to computers to share one cat 5e port. With this type of cat 5 splitter, you can have only one connection active at a time. You could use this 5 splitter to connect to PCs to one data port. Since this 5 splitter is so inexpensive, you could purchase several to engineer a number of different connections -- or just keep one or two on hand for emergencies.
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