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

  • TDSheridanLAB@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    What is your actual bottleneck?

    10 devices on a switch isn’t a bottleneck especially in a home environment. The chances of a normal use scenario where all 10 devices are maxing on out gig networking is next to zero.