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

  • cyber1kenobiBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Don’t daisy chain them. One line from the main switch (your router) to each additional switch. If your devices support it and you can figure out how to setup LAG (link aggregation) you can combine two links to each switch for more speed but you probably don’t need that.

  • RScottyLBEnglish
    1·
    10 months ago

    Nope, just use one port per switch!

  • Oisteink@feddit.nlEnglish
    1·
    10 months ago

    Right - so Link Aggregation is a thing no matter what the others here say.

    To use more than one port per link you need some kind of support for it. LACP is quite common (and easy) form of link aggregation but also there are other implementations.

    Speed is one thing I question (or pps as you have 2x amount available) but also failover. If one cable/interface stops working the other(s) keeps things working