Network Switches for My Home Network

[papashep]

My Sky Router only has two ports, one is used by the Sky box and the other is currently used by the house network.
I need to move my office from the House to an external building. I plan to run a Cat6 cable from the external building to my router in the house. I know I will require a switch in the external building, should I put a switch next to the router so I can maintain the sky box, my house network and my new office network and what is the best way of going about this. Please note I do not have a lot of cash for expensive switches. Has anybody got any advise on what I am about to do.

 

[bill001g]

You put the switch where you need the ports. You may need 2 small switches depending on how many devices you have at each location.

You should be able to find 10/100/1000 switches for under $20 like tl-sg1005d. 10/100 sometime is slightly cheaper but you are only talking a couple dollars difference in most cases.

 

[papashep]

You put the switch where you need the ports. You may need 2 small switches depending on how many devices you have at each location.

You should be able to find 10/100/1000 switches for under $20 like tl-sg1005d. 10/100 sometime is slightly cheaper but you are only talking a couple dollars difference in most cases.

Thanks for your reply.
This is my plan based on your response:
I will link my external office switch to the house switch.
I will also link the house network to the house switch.
I will link the sky box and the house switch to the sky router.

Will I need to use any cross over network cables ?

Kind Regards
Papashep

 

[bill001g]

Everything uses straight cables now days the ports figure this out themselves. Gigabit actually transmit and receives on all 4 pair from both ends at the same time so the concept does not really apply to gigabit anyway.

 

[The Paladin]

the router can be any model, I use one between my two desktop computer and the PC's 2 Nas drive I have, so only one cable runs from the switch to the router that is 100FT away.
the switch is physically on my desk. just make sure you get one that can handle 1GB/s and is not managed and you will be fine.
[router] ---100ft Cat6---[switch]---PC/nas drives.