Can anyone give me some setup tips?
The setup
I'm not necessarily looking to do anything fancy, but I'd like a nice, fast, efficient connection for all my devices.
The background (longer story):
I have roughly 48 CAT6 connections throughout the house. I'm not using all of these at once, but I thought while I was installing cable, why not overkill instead of underkill.
For a few years, I've just used an unmanaged TP-Link 24port TL-SG1024 gigabit switch, and swapped patch cords around at the rack when I needed to use different connections throughout the house.
This worked well, and everything was fast, but eventually I wanted to be able to make all outlets live, and do away with the swapping. So I installed a second TP-Link 24port TL-SG1024, and patched in all outlets.
Unfortunately, even though the number of end devices and download traffic remained the same, the entire network became slower. It wasn't very noticable on downloads, because Google fiber is very fast and has some room to spare, but it really showed while gaming with voice chat. I've 100% verified that the switch was causing it. During a session, I tested several things, but the most definitive was listening to voice chat with and without the second switch connected (with no devices connected to it). The second switch alone was enough to cause distortion and slowdown in the voice chat.
So that is what brought me to the 48 port switch idea. My hope was that by ditching the dual 24 port switches, and having all ports on one switch, it would elimnate the slowdown. And since i was already having to shell out considerable money for a 48 port, I thought I might as well pay a bit extra and make it a managed switch while I was at it.
I'm not sure if that was the right choice or not. I'm hoping you all can tell me.
I'd also be very grateful for any tips you can provide to:
Thanks for any help/advice you can offer.
The setup
home is wired with Cat6 cable
Google fiber box w/ Wifi
TP-Link L2 managed switch T2600G-52TS (48 port gigabit)
Asus RT-AC66U router set up in AP mode with a separate SSID
this is connected through one of the home's CAT6 connections, back to the TP-Link switch
Small 8 port unmanaged Dlink gigabit switch
this is also connected back to the TP-Link through the home's CAT6
I'm not necessarily looking to do anything fancy, but I'd like a nice, fast, efficient connection for all my devices.
The background (longer story):
I have roughly 48 CAT6 connections throughout the house. I'm not using all of these at once, but I thought while I was installing cable, why not overkill instead of underkill.
For a few years, I've just used an unmanaged TP-Link 24port TL-SG1024 gigabit switch, and swapped patch cords around at the rack when I needed to use different connections throughout the house.
This worked well, and everything was fast, but eventually I wanted to be able to make all outlets live, and do away with the swapping. So I installed a second TP-Link 24port TL-SG1024, and patched in all outlets.
Unfortunately, even though the number of end devices and download traffic remained the same, the entire network became slower. It wasn't very noticable on downloads, because Google fiber is very fast and has some room to spare, but it really showed while gaming with voice chat. I've 100% verified that the switch was causing it. During a session, I tested several things, but the most definitive was listening to voice chat with and without the second switch connected (with no devices connected to it). The second switch alone was enough to cause distortion and slowdown in the voice chat.
So that is what brought me to the 48 port switch idea. My hope was that by ditching the dual 24 port switches, and having all ports on one switch, it would elimnate the slowdown. And since i was already having to shell out considerable money for a 48 port, I thought I might as well pay a bit extra and make it a managed switch while I was at it.
I'm not sure if that was the right choice or not. I'm hoping you all can tell me.
I'd also be very grateful for any tips you can provide to:
Get into the TP-Link interface
How to best configure it
Thanks for any help/advice you can offer.