Multiple Cat6 Cables

[hbake17]

Hello fellow Techeads, I have recently moved in to a new place and as I was setting up my home network consisting of one modem, one 8 port switch, two computers running windows 7, an Xbox 360 and a HP printer I figured since I have some free ports I would use two cables from the modem to the switch to perhaps increase the potential speed of all the devices or the data flow, however when I hooked it up it created an infinite loop between my modem and the switch and I could not connect to any of my devices or the internet even tho all the devices registered a connection with the net.

So my question is does any one know how I might set it up to use multiple cables from the modem to the switch, the modem is a FritzBox 7390 running the Fritz OS 6.03 and the switch is a TP-Link TL-SG1008.

Thanks in Advance
Harley.

 

[edogawa]

You only need one cable from the modem to the switch.
Adding an additional cable will not increase the data flow at all.
You're capable of getting 1 gigabit over LAN with that router and switch.
Unless you have a 1 gigabit internet plan from your ISP you will not experience bottlenecks when downloading or uploading.

 

[alyoshka]

Nope, it doesn't work that way.
The modem to the switch is a one way issue, although the one you use is a cross crimped one....
Though I have never tried it myself, but, I could give you an idea and try all straight crimped cables from the modem to the switch. But I really don't think that'll help.
If you connect all the ports to a single switch, you'll endup having a hell of a lot of collisions and packet drops.

 

[zhihao50]

One cable is more then enough for bandwidth between your modem and switch. Max ADSL speed is way less then even 100mbit/s. There is no point in sending more data to your modem if it can't pass it to the internet. So not going to be worth the effort for the trouble.