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

  • Downtown-Reindeer-53@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Yes, each switch has the upstream port connected to your router. Unused ports are not a waste.

    IF you have gigabit ethernet ports on everything, there is no real bottleneck. You won’t saturate - i.e. fill the connection - because you don’t run everything at full blast at the same time. Most home devices take VERY little bandwidth. Even your streaming devices are relatively low. If you have something that is higher bandwidth you could put it directly on a router port, but it’s not likely you will notice much.