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Bobski2000
Nov 22, 2021Tutor
Managed + unmanaged
good evening. I'm about to start wiring my house with the computers etc.. looking for some advice. as you can see I have two switches. 1 unmanaged and one managed. I was thinking of using the mana...
JohnC_V
Nov 24, 2021NETGEAR Moderator
It hurts my neck looking at your picture. Just kidding! :) It would be best if you will just use the managed switch as your main switch that connects to your router and let it distribute everything to your network. Is this a flat network? No VLANs or anything?
Regards,
John
NETGEAR Community Team
- Bobski2000Nov 24, 2021Tutorđ my fault I held the camera wrongly
No VLans or anything like that.
Thinking of Cat6 throughout. Donât think Iâll go over 10gb (am I right thinking itâs up to 180ft)
Dave
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