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Hi,
I'm thinking of buying an Ethernet switch so I can connect 3 of my devices up to the internet, at the moment I have a home plug, so I was wondering if I could connect the ethernet switch up to the internet using the home plug, if that makes sense.

The switch I'm looking at is the TP-Link TL-SG1005D

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router to switch to machines
or
router to homeplug to homeplug to switch to machines
or
router to machines and to homeplug to homeplug to switch to machines

all ok.
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Okay, thank you

 
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not sure what your homeplug is other than an ethernet cable.

anyways that switch you selected is unmanaged and does not come with a cross over cable which is basically a vice versa wire order on the ethernet plug, so you will need to make or purchase a crossover cable also.

communication wiring goes to the modem, modem via cross over cable to your switch, ethernet cables from your switches ports to your devices.

a managed switch does a better job of distributed flow control in reducing bottlenecks while sharing internet between several devices.

if you are only using one device at a time or devices that will not use the full amount of your internet MBPerSecond then it's not necessary at this time.
 
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I realize you are only trying to be helpful but be sure what you post is correct.

Although homeplug is most commonly used as a ethernet cable it can be used as a mutiport switch by using more than 2 devices. Not that I would recommend it but it does work "most the time" to use your house wiring as a switch backplane

He is using a gig switch. All gig switches as part of the standard must support mdi/mdix. Most 10/100 also support this even though it is not required like it is for gig switches. This means you no longer need a cross cable. Good lucky trying to even find a cable that crosses all 4 pair.

A managed switch does not pass traffic any better or faster than a unmanged one. Almost no switch has an bottlenecks. The switch he lists actually has 16g of backplane speed. This means it is faster than all the ports transmitting and receive 1g of data at the same time. This is called non blocking or wirespeed. It is almost impossible to find any switch that does not run wirespeed even the very cheap ones. It is actually some of the manged ones with 10g ports that they over commit the capacity sometime to cut costs.

You really only need a manged switch when you need a feature such as vlans or you want to limit traffic below the port speeds for reasons other that raw capacity.

 
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i had to google 'homeplug'. i never bothered with this network via home electrical system, not knowing what it was other than it's 'knicknamefromthemanufacturer' did not help in understanding what he was doing.

seeing as his network cable is nothing more than a 2 way wire such as doorbell/telephone wire 3 devices will result in alot of collisions at such a slow speed of less than 1MBper (at best) second transfer. not sure it will be worth the hassle.

still don't know what the 3 devices to be used are or what you will be having the 3 different devices doing.

my prior response was for max thruput at todays latest and greatest for a a power user & gamer running a home LAN network to game and file transfer and stream full movies from their pc to their tv as well as do work or gaming and using their blutooth smartphone at the same time as the 3rd device.

i was not given any details what the network was being designed for so i automatically went no limits max power home improvement style binford9000 everything arh arh arhhg.

i'll just stop bothering with forum help, lack of 'specifics' is just a waste of my time anyways.
 
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given that you know nothing about homeplug... you should stop bothering on forums as you appear to know nothing and are just wasting everyone elses time.

I get 100-150Mbps on mine, between 3 locations. It's designed to work on '2-way wire such as bell' so they take measures to keep the speed up.

To your point earlier a cross over cable is only needed on a pc to pc connection with no intermediate device.
 
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