Hi everyone, I have a basic question.
I understand there may or may not be a marginal decrease in throughput, and I'm not concerned about it. What I fear is finicky connectivity.
The setup is typical: Cable modem - Wifi router - Devices. Now I am trying to move the router from office to a central location in the house for better wireless coverage, but all my ethernet devices are in the office. I can run 4 ethernet cables from the router to office, but that will look ugly, might cause interference, and just plain silly. Instead I should run a single cable and put a switch in the office to serve all wired devices like normal people do. In theory. What I know too well is that unless you get a solid device and configure it right, adding a device is a big headache. Devices don't see each other, they need to be power cycled every week, connections become finicky etc etc. Just last month I added a repeater to my wifi just to see that while the signal was strong and throughput increased, half the time I had no connection at all
So the question is, how often do switches (simplest, unmanaged ones) cause connectivity issues? I'd rather have a 1986 Toyota Camry tthan a brand new electric car that decides to die once a day.
Appreciate everyone's input.
I understand there may or may not be a marginal decrease in throughput, and I'm not concerned about it. What I fear is finicky connectivity.
The setup is typical: Cable modem - Wifi router - Devices. Now I am trying to move the router from office to a central location in the house for better wireless coverage, but all my ethernet devices are in the office. I can run 4 ethernet cables from the router to office, but that will look ugly, might cause interference, and just plain silly. Instead I should run a single cable and put a switch in the office to serve all wired devices like normal people do. In theory. What I know too well is that unless you get a solid device and configure it right, adding a device is a big headache. Devices don't see each other, they need to be power cycled every week, connections become finicky etc etc. Just last month I added a repeater to my wifi just to see that while the signal was strong and throughput increased, half the time I had no connection at all
So the question is, how often do switches (simplest, unmanaged ones) cause connectivity issues? I'd rather have a 1986 Toyota Camry tthan a brand new electric car that decides to die once a day.
Appreciate everyone's input.
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