Question 10 port switch

[BigStevie]

A couple of years ago I done away with our power line adaptors we were using to connect the router in another room to connect to our TV and set top box. They failed to work I suspect due to the addition of Sockets around the house with USB ports with them. The transformers for the usb sockets seemed to be fouling up the transmission from the router through the house wiring.

Anyway, I had the house wired by a spark for internet in most of the rooms. He installed it with an 8 port Hikvision unmanaged network switch using 7 of the ports for devices and one plugged direct to one of the routers 4 LAN ports.

I now need another port as I am adding another smart tv upstairs.

One of the next switch I am looking at a Tenda 10 port (8 LAN plus 2 Uplink ports) switch. Does the Uplink port on the new switch connect to the LAN port of the router?

Or better off getting a Netgear16 port switch ? which doesn't have uplink ports.

 

[ex_bubblehead]

Uplink ports are for connecting switch to switch, they are not regular ports. Though some managed $witche$ can be configured for such.

 

[bill001g]

Just buy a second 8 port switch and plug one of the ports into one of the other lan ports on the router.

Now technically this will not be as fast as buying a 10 or 16 port switch but you have to ask do you actually have more than 1gbit of traffic going between devices that will be plugged into the old and the new switch. On something like a 16 port switch you could have many session running at 1gbit between various ports. Although there is no actual real life use case the switch could pass a total of 32gbit of traffic. The 8 port switch can "ONLY?" do 16gbit and only 1gbit between the 2 switch.

It would be extremely rare for a home user to really even need to think about stuff like this. Just add more switches and pretty much plug them in any place that is convenient.