Thinking about making my connections wired, having just had installed a 500mbps fibre connection.
However I have been provided with Linksys Velop from the fibre provider, and have 2 x additional nodes. The nodes only have 2 x ethernet ports - so with a wired set up, each will only have 1 free port.
The parent is connected to the fibre in the hall, and have additional nodes in the living room and bedroom.... currently connected by wifi, living room signal is fair, whilst the bedroom is poor..... so my thinking is to get these child nodes wired, and i have easy passage to lay the cable.
But being the parent has only 1 free port, my understanding is i would have to have a switch in the hall, from which i would a cat6 to the bedroom and living room, to a switch in each of those rooms, from which i can then cable to each piece of equipment in those rooms.
So i would be daisy chaining the switches in the bedroom and living room from the switch in hall.
Would this switch be ok?
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Would these setup work, or is there a better way?
My equipment all works fine, but i´m getting less than 200mbps through wifi on my equipment.... sometimes far less, and the app shows 500mbps is entering the parent node.
With previous provider i had 50mbps and had a mesh network with a switch in both rooms, but these were run from the router which had 5 ports. This gave all my equipment the full 50mbps.... so want similar for my now 500mbps.
Thanks for all your help.
However I have been provided with Linksys Velop from the fibre provider, and have 2 x additional nodes. The nodes only have 2 x ethernet ports - so with a wired set up, each will only have 1 free port.
The parent is connected to the fibre in the hall, and have additional nodes in the living room and bedroom.... currently connected by wifi, living room signal is fair, whilst the bedroom is poor..... so my thinking is to get these child nodes wired, and i have easy passage to lay the cable.
But being the parent has only 1 free port, my understanding is i would have to have a switch in the hall, from which i would a cat6 to the bedroom and living room, to a switch in each of those rooms, from which i can then cable to each piece of equipment in those rooms.
So i would be daisy chaining the switches in the bedroom and living room from the switch in hall.
Would this switch be ok?
amazon.co.uk/gp/…e_3
Would these setup work, or is there a better way?
My equipment all works fine, but i´m getting less than 200mbps through wifi on my equipment.... sometimes far less, and the app shows 500mbps is entering the parent node.
With previous provider i had 50mbps and had a mesh network with a switch in both rooms, but these were run from the router which had 5 ports. This gave all my equipment the full 50mbps.... so want similar for my now 500mbps.
Thanks for all your help.
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sorted byThat's a gigabit switch, perfect solution for you - it'll give you an additional 5 ports (1 is used for the uplink)
There is always a better way - such as a managed switch (which will set you back about another £20 or so), but it's not necessary and adds a layer of complexity you probably don't need (you need to configure it to get the best performance out of it) (edited)
Think i´ĺl just go for the one switch then connected to the primary..... hive hub us here too.... and run the 2 x cat6 to the secondry nodes and see how that improves the wifi speeds in those rooms.
Thank you
Managed is where it becomes complex and a no no for chaining.
I´m going to just connect the node in the living room to see how things improve, and take it from there if i also run a cable up to the loft and drop it down to the bedroom.
Thanks again
As for cat8, I’ve avoided all the increase in numbers must be better and all the cabling in my house is all solid copper cat5e, so can easily achieve gigabit speeds so good enough for me.