Switch downstream to the router

[dcomp]

Hi all!

I have a router connecting four computers to the internet. Now, I want to connect one more computer to the internet but all the ports of the router have already been used. So I was thinking to get a switch and connect the switch downstream to the router and then connect my computer to the switch for internet connection. Is it possible? Also, what effect it will have on the internet speed to my computer? Or do I need to get another router?

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
DV

 

[handruin]

Hi all!

I have a router connecting four computers to the internet. Now, I want to connect one more computer to the internet but all the ports of the router have already been used. So I was thinking to get a switch and connect the switch downstream to the router and then connect my computer to the switch for internet connection. Is it possible? Also, what effect it will have on the internet speed to my computer? Or do I need to get another router?

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
DV

You can easily connect an inexpensive basic switch running preferably at 100Mb speed or higher to any of the four LAN ports on your router. You can continue to connect three devices directly to the router and then the fourth to the new switch. If you get an 4 or 8 port switch, you can connect that many more devices.

This will not affect your internet speed at all. I have a four port 1-gigabit router (DLink DIR655) which uses one of the available 4 ports that connect to my 24-port HP gigabit switch (HP 1810G-24) which connects my entire house. There is no impact due to the switch.

The only time you may see an impact is if you have your type of configuration where the 8-port switch has all 8 devices pumping tons of data and they are all trying to access a device on one of the other three router ports simultaneously (a LAN route). This would be highly unlikely, but your bottle neck would be that single connection.

If you figure your internet connection is somewhere around 10-25 megabits down and you get a switch that has 100 megabit port speed, it'll have plenty of bandwidth to support multiple machines on this new switch you're considering. My point being, your internet service will be the slowest component unless if you somehow have some kind of incredible ISP service.


Here are some photo examples of my setup.

 

[dcomp]

Hi!

Thanks you very much! It indeed helped.. I connected a switch downstream to the router and it worked fine!
Thanks again!