Running multiple users over one ethernet cable.

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You can't run multiple computers on one Ethernet cable. You need a switch and then connect the computers or whatever other devices you want to feed from that cable to the switch.

As for performance, there would be no significant performance difference between using a switch and having each device have its own dedicated run to the router/gateway as long as the aggregated load on the switch going through the uplink is less than what the uplink port (to the modem/router/gateway) is capable of.

Unless your internet connection is 100Mbps or faster, it shouldn't make much of a difference even if you use a 100Mbps switch. If you are using the switch to share data between computers and devices connected to the switch, then that doesn't count...
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You can't run multiple computers on one Ethernet cable. You need a switch and then connect the computers or whatever other devices you want to feed from that cable to the switch.

As for performance, there would be no significant performance difference between using a switch and having each device have its own dedicated run to the router/gateway as long as the aggregated load on the switch going through the uplink is less than what the uplink port (to the modem/router/gateway) is capable of.

Unless your internet connection is 100Mbps or faster, it shouldn't make much of a difference even if you use a 100Mbps switch. If you are using the switch to share data between computers and devices connected to the switch, then that doesn't count towards uplink/internet utilization as that traffic would be local to the switch.
 
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