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http://www.amazon.co.uk/Belkin.....#38;sr=1-3
Will that product allow me to have 2 internet connections running out of one socket?

Aleeve, sorry to say but this device will not split your internet. If you look at the enlarged image at Amazon, you can see a wiring diagram on top. It's not very clear, but you can see that the device uses all 8 pins of the RJ-45 connector to route the 4 input signals from the two 10/100-BaseT connectors. The pins of one connector are routed to the standard 10/100-BaseT pins and the pins from the other connector are routed to the 4 normally *unused* pins of the connector. Unless you have a device that recognizes this unusual wiring configuration, the second connector will just be ignored.

Note that the device is called a cable "economiser". One thing you can do with such a device is connect two different ethernet devices to a single cable that then makes a long run through a house or other building, then use another device to de-mux the two connections at the far end. Hence, you have used 1 cable for the long run instead of 2, ergo it is economised.

BTW, don't put such a device on a Gigabit ethernet (1000-BaseT) network -- those 8 pins all mean something unique on Gigabit ethernet.