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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    10 months 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.