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wizzard

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Can I run a second switch off the first one please? First one connected to a router -> Modem. Both switches are identical unmanaged.
 
Sure. The only downside to cascading / daisy-chaining switches is that total bandwidth for devices connected to the second switch is limited to the bandwidth of the uplink port. So if you have gigabit switches, total bandwidth is 1 Gbps.

This should not be a problem unless you have multiple devices transferring large files.
 

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