this post was submitted on 13 Nov 2023
6 points (100.0% liked)
Home Networking
424 readers
1 users here now
A community to help people learn, install, set up or troubleshoot their home network equipment and solutions.
Rules
- Please stay on topic.
- Please use the search function to look for keywords related to what you want to ask before posting since most common issues have been answered.
- No Ads. This community is for support and discussion. Ads and self promotion are not welcome here.
- No product reviews or announcements. If you have a question about a product, be specific about what you want to know.
- Be civil. Don't be a jerk. Not being a jerk is surprisingly easy.
- No URL shorteners. URL shorteners tend to hide the real use of a link. For this reason, please use normal links, even if they're long.
- No affiliate links.
- No gatekeeping. With profession shall come professionalism. Extend help without judging others for their ignorance. The same goes for downvoting of comments or posts for "stupid questions" or not being as knowledgeable as others.
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
Personally I'd rather have multiple connections to the router. If that's a shelf in front of this setup, I'd be tempted to put the router there and give each switch it's own connection directly to the router. With the switches currently there you'd replace the blue cable connecting them (port 8 on left, port 1 on right) with a cable from each to the router. It splits the maximum possible devices that would be competing for bandwidth to the router.
Of course if that's a terrible place for the wifi then I'd do what you said.
On soho routers with a handful of ports, usually the ports are just switchports connected to one logical LAN interface anyway. Don’t think it’d make a difference.