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

  • SP3NGL3R@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    This. I use 1 cable from router into a 16 and then additional switches if the 16 (like a small POE switch). This avoids one extra device for LAN traffic while leaving a full gig just for WAN. Avoiding a bottleneck for actual Internet traffic.