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I am purchasing a home that provides wired cat5 connections to each room, allowing 10-20 wired connections. I will be using a wireless router that allows only 5 wired devices, ie: tv's, video game systems, computers. How do I add more ports to my wireless router to allow me to hard wire more devices?
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Re: Add more ports to router on network
Would any particular type of unmanaged switch be more or less advantagous since I am connecting a variety of differrent types of devices such as Xbox's, computers, TV's and so forth?
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Re: Add more ports to router on network
There are features like QoS (802.1p), jumbo frame support, buffer size, and overall throughput that you can shop for. But for a basic, home environment, where the majority of use is going to be Internet access, then I'd say these features are not going to be all that important. They only significant if you do a LOT of data transfers between home computers.
If you do end up buying a 24 port switch, it'll probably be a business class switch and will have a decent featureset, anyway.
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