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

  • megared17@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Unless both the router and rhw switches support link aggregation, and you configure it properly on both, each switch should connect using only one cable.

    You could connect other devices into either of the spare ports on the router, if convenient. Maybe a home server or something?

    Fwiw, the 4 ports on your router are part of a switch too, just one that is built in. And there is at least.one additional logical port, that connects from that built in switch to the router part internally.

    • SirLauncelot@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      It’s actually a physical trace inside. The 4 ports you see will typically be on a 5 or 6 port switch. 1 port will go to the cpu, another is for a second phy for the cpu and is typically the wan port.