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Managed + unmanaged

Bobski2000
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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 managed switch as my main and use the unmanaged as a spare.

my big idea is too bring all the cables over from from the front of the house over to the back and use the switch to then sort them out. Does any one have any better ideas please?

regards

Dave

 


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Model: GS116Ev2|ProSafe Plus 16 ports gigabits switch, GS724Tv4|ProSafe 24 ports Gigabit Smart switch
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JohnC_V
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Re: Managed + unmanaged

@Bobski2000,

 

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

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Bobski2000
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Re: Managed + unmanaged

😂 my fault I held the camera wrongly
No VLans or anything like that.
Thinking of Cat6 throughout. Don’t think I’ll go over 10gb (am I right thinking it’s up to 180ft)
Dave
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