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Home Networking@selfhosted.forumEnglish · 1 year ago

Do I use 2 ports on the router for 1 switch

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Do I use 2 ports on the router for 1 switch

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Home Networking@selfhosted.forumEnglish · 1 year ago

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

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You could also link back on both switches to the router, long as spanning tree is working as intended, it should not loop, and you have a redundant link in the event you have to cable manage things or a link breaks for whatever reason

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