Would this home network work?

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aidiewright

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Hi,

I know this picture is simple but you get what I'm doing, Would this work? ie connect all the devices to the internet, And also make make my LAN faster as it would be a wired network? Unable to stream movies over wireless, too slow. Might aswell as I can pick up a switch for very cheap if this will work?



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If so would the TL-SG105 work for this? Powerline into port one and then the rest of the devices into the rest of the ports, would they get a n internet connection?
 
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Mostly it will work. You largest issue is running more than 1 power line connection. You can run them separate like you have but in effect you have 4 device on your power network. You can also run just 3. 1 by the router and 1 each on the remote locations. Running 3 in one network tends to cause less degregation than running 2 completely separate connections.

Still powerline stuff can be very flaky so I would setup and make sure one of your connection work well before you add the second one.

There really is not a large issue using a dumb switch the powerline devices can handle a good number of mac addresses. The only time they seem to get confused is if you would move a pc from say your upstairs location to your...
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Mostly it will work. You largest issue is running more than 1 power line connection. You can run them separate like you have but in effect you have 4 device on your power network. You can also run just 3. 1 by the router and 1 each on the remote locations. Running 3 in one network tends to cause less degregation than running 2 completely separate connections.

Still powerline stuff can be very flaky so I would setup and make sure one of your connection work well before you add the second one.

There really is not a large issue using a dumb switch the powerline devices can handle a good number of mac addresses. The only time they seem to get confused is if you would move a pc from say your upstairs location to your downstairs. Sometime it can take a few minutes before it figures out you have done this.
 
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aidiewright

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Oh right thank you, The powerline connectors work well in my house, I get 14mbps upstairs from the ISP and the max I get get from my ISP so no real bandwidth loss, Will the 3 powerline adapters worth in theory still though?

Also is the TL-SG105 good enough for my needs? One port to the powerline, the rest to the internet/home network.
 
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bill001g

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You would not even need the gig capability and the switch would be more than good enough but cost wise there is little reason not to buy gig. The technology used in consumer switches has been around along time without change and is very stable.

You will get a slowdown running 3 powerline but it will likely still be more than your ISP speed. Most times the people have issues are trying to stream data inside their house where you can really use the high speed abilities of devices.
 
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