Anyone recommend a four port ethernet hub? Super low power usage?

NeilF

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I have a homeplug (with 4 ethernet connections) in my lounge for my devices to use. I've run out of connections, so want to plug a four port hub into it giving me 7 connections.


Can anyone recommend me one, ideally thats super efficient? Even powered by ethernet if possible, so the homeplug would power it over ethernet?

It's a Zyxel PLA 470 in question, that I'd be trying to increase from 4 to 7 ports...
 
Nope - to drive a device via POE you need a power injector (aka mid-span) which usually takes a standard kettle lead into a box with Ethernet in, providing POE out, or a switch with POE built-in.
 
Oh! In that case then I need a nice efficient regular hub then? :) Some sort of eco one than uses next to no power when not in use :)
 
You probably don't want a hub in this day and age unless you want to have the odd collision.

Switches with PoE in them quickly boost up the price.
 
So I need a switch, rather than a hub? ie: My Zyxel PLA 470 homeplug ends with four ports, and into one of those I'd plug say another four port swich, giving me a total of seven ethernet sockets, all of which can then share the connection offered by the Zyxel PLA 470 over the mains?
 
I can recommend the "TP-Link 5-Port Gigabit Unmanaged Desktop Switch"

Quick Google should find it for ~£14 from a certain leafy website.

TP-Link stuff turns off ports when not in use but pretty sure this is standard affair with any switch these days and no doubt just marketing blurb.

The reason people are saying you want a switch rather than a hub is that in simple terms switches have the ability to route traffic that comes in directly the the device on the other end. Hubs are just dumb boxes that take data in then pump it out in all directions.

And yes, you assumption is correct. Just think of the homeplugs are network cables. You can plug a homeplug into a switch then all your other devices into other ports and they'll all connect up.

It's perfectly possible to have a modem going into a switch that goes into a homeplug that at the other end comes from the homeplug into a switch into a xbox and you'll still get online.
 
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