Whilst having some building work done I’ve taken the opportunity to have a few hard wired Ethernet ports installed. The Cat 6 cable from each of these new Ethernet ports goes into my garage which is next to the room with my router. Into one of these new ports I intend to connect another router (as an access point) to improve the wireless signal within the house. The other ports will be used for TVs, etc and in due course probably another computer.
My current broadband speed with just my current PC plugged into my router isn’t great (about 4.5Mb) but this is OK for our current needs. However, ideally I don’t what the speed to reduce too much.
I’m assuming that the ‘best’ way would be to plug the Cat 6 cables directly into the LAN ports at the back of my router. However, this will look very untidy as, unless I move the router into the garage (which I don’t really want to do), I’ll have all of these cables going through the wall.
I think the ‘neatest’ solution would be to connect one of the LAN ports on my router to an Ethernet port on the wall (between the room with the router and the garage), and then to have Cat 6 cable out of the back of this port connected to the Cat 6 cable from the new Ethernet ports via a Gigabit network switch.
There are no doubt other solutions that are somewhere in between.
I’m concerned that the ‘neat’ solution will result in too great a loss of speed/performance but I’ve been unable to find out if this will be the case - have tried a few shops and my ISP to no avail.
I guess what I’m essentially asking is does connecting devices to my router via a network switch and/or Ethernet ports mid way significantly reduce speed or any other aspects of performance.
My current broadband speed with just my current PC plugged into my router isn’t great (about 4.5Mb) but this is OK for our current needs. However, ideally I don’t what the speed to reduce too much.
I’m assuming that the ‘best’ way would be to plug the Cat 6 cables directly into the LAN ports at the back of my router. However, this will look very untidy as, unless I move the router into the garage (which I don’t really want to do), I’ll have all of these cables going through the wall.
I think the ‘neatest’ solution would be to connect one of the LAN ports on my router to an Ethernet port on the wall (between the room with the router and the garage), and then to have Cat 6 cable out of the back of this port connected to the Cat 6 cable from the new Ethernet ports via a Gigabit network switch.
There are no doubt other solutions that are somewhere in between.
I’m concerned that the ‘neat’ solution will result in too great a loss of speed/performance but I’ve been unable to find out if this will be the case - have tried a few shops and my ISP to no avail.
I guess what I’m essentially asking is does connecting devices to my router via a network switch and/or Ethernet ports mid way significantly reduce speed or any other aspects of performance.