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Need another ethernet port
Rbk50. This one only has 3 ethernet ports - I need a fourth. I preordered the Wyze outdoor camera which comes with its own wifi base station. would I be able to use a splitter such as this.... ...
Wouldn't be overkill, switches are inexpensive and easy to setup. Turn ON and plug in play. Your up and running. You can plug any wired device into the RBS.
sethm1 wrote:Thanks. 5 port is overkill. But that wont degrade speed correct.
The satellite has ports right? So instead of the switch, I should be able to plug in the wyze base station into the orbi sattelite??
Not a good idea. That splitter is a hack and only allows one device to be active at a time. From that product's detail page:
But Beware that Ethernet splitter will not make two Ethernet ports from one, meaning that you cannot use two computers at the same time using this splitter. ONE AT A TIME ,doesn't support all computer to connect onto the internet simultaneously.
Instead, get an unmanaged network switch. These allow multiple network devices to be active at the same time. Avoid the "green" (less power) ones as there have been problems with them with Orbi (I think because they deactivate ports inappropriately). For example: https://www.amazon.com/NETGEAR-5-Port-Gigabit-Ethernet-Unmanaged/dp/B07S98YLHM/
Thanks. 5 port is overkill. But that wont degrade speed correct.
The satellite has ports right? So instead of the switch, I should be able to plug in the wyze base station into the orbi sattelite??
sethm1 wrote:Thanks. 5 port is overkill. But that wont degrade speed correct.
The satellite has ports right? So instead of the switch, I should be able to plug in the wyze base station into the orbi sattelite??
Yes for both questions.
Mikey94025is correct.
The Wyze camera controller can be connected to either the router or the satellite. How well it will work depends on how strong the signal will be when it reaches the camera(s). The farther the Wyze controller is from the actual cameras, the weaker the signal will be.
Yes, 5 ports is "overkill" for today. What happens when day after tomorrow you want to connect something else to the Orbi router?
I now have an 8-port gigabit switch that has 7 of 8 ports in use. I keep finding reasons to want "yet another" ethernet port on the Orbi. First it was the printer. Then another PC. Then my first Raspberry Pi. Then my second Raspberry Pi. Then my Powerline adapter. Then a way to connect my laptop for testing. Then...... It just goes on and on.
Wouldn't be overkill, switches are inexpensive and easy to setup. Turn ON and plug in play. Your up and running. You can plug any wired device into the RBS.
sethm1 wrote:Thanks. 5 port is overkill. But that wont degrade speed correct.
The satellite has ports right? So instead of the switch, I should be able to plug in the wyze base station into the orbi sattelite??
