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

  • alphaxion@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    This is basically just using a core switch and keeping your router as your edge of network.

    I’d go even further and buy a layer 3 lite switch as that core and have your gateway address on endpoints be that switch IP. Have some routing to point 0.0.0.0/0 on your switch to your router IP.

    Move DHCP and DNS roles onto a server and disable them on your router.

    With that set up, it means you can swap out your edge of network without disrupting your internal traffic.