Why does just splitting an Ethernet cable not work?
- by Sin Jeong-hun
I thought the Ethernet is logically a one-line communication bus (for argument's sake, I am excluding hubs). All machines attached on the bus hears the same signals and the machines themselves try to avoid collisions by randomly backing off.
http://computer.howstuffworks.com/ethernet6.htm
If so, why would splitting one Ethernet line from my home…