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I have a cat5 drop in my guest room that goes down to the standard outlet level that is wired into a keystone jack.

I decided to mount a tv on the wall halfway up and also want to put a cat5 cable there to hook up to the tv/dvd player.

My question is, can I terminate a short cat5 cable into the keystone jack and run it a few feet up the wall to the tv. Essentially, it's splitting off from the jack and creating another jack.

Is this possible? Any performance loss of both outlets ever happened to be used?

In the image below, I have the keystone hooked up to the drop and another 5 foot cable from that box up the the tv. Before I tap into it though, just wanted to save some time and see if it's even possible or cause issues.

Thanks!

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Ethernet over UTP (unshielded twisted pair) cable cannot be spliced nor passively split, and still conform to CAT(5/5e/6/*) specifications. The topology described requires a switch after the wall jack to provide multiple host connections.

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