Hi all

I have a router with 4 wired ports

Then I have two sixteen port switches connected

From there my house it hardwired like a mad man.

My question: Should I plug 2 ports from the router to each switch, will that free up a bottle neck?

the way I have it now there are 2 unused ports on the router. Seems a waste.

And I got like 10 things on each switch with only 1 Ethernet going to the router, isn’t that a terrible bottle neck ?

Thx

  • cyber1kenobi@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Don’t daisy chain them. One line from the main switch (your router) to each additional switch. If your devices support it and you can figure out how to setup LAG (link aggregation) you can combine two links to each switch for more speed but you probably don’t need that.

    • SP3NGL3R@alien.topBEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I would 100% Daisy chain for the average home. Okay maybe not 100%, but what it does is frees up full gig speed across the home while protecting a single gig connection to the router for actual Internet traffic. I would put the most ‘internet needed’ critical things on the first switch and the less critical on the second. If there is zero LAN-LAN stuff is happening (cameras to a recording station, home media server, etc.) Then maybe fork it in parallel mixing the most critical across the switches.