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Danmac_109
Nov 11, 2017Follower
Nighthawk M1
I’m interested in this device. Can someone help me with advice on set up? I wanted to run 100m of cat6 from the Ethernet port to a Netgear Ethernet switch. From there I wanted to run to PS4 and lapto...
William10a
Nov 11, 2017Master
At a 100 meters your about 1/3 the max distance for a wired lan cable with cat6 you should be able run a 1gb speed the switch and the routers lan port speeds will be the main factor limiting the network speed on that feed. I see no problem with a switch off a router to share the network connection to other devices.
antinode
Nov 11, 2017Guru
> At a 100 meters your about 1/3 the max distance for a wired lan cable
> [...]
1/3 or 1/1?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigabit_Ethernet