See bremens post.
Exactly this.
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Cheap doesn't last, no point buying good cable quality then crimping them to rubbish.
Can't daisy chain switches??
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I think my first post #2 should have said "is it in yet". meaning have you actually pushed the clip in properly. I might dumb myself down a little for the forum.
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Just my 2p - I'm no longer a fan of daisy chaining unmanaged switches. Recently moved house and just needed to get some connectivity. Had some strange results of having 8 switches in various runs which have now all been replaced with a single managed switch and like you managed to identify some physical cabling issues that I was previously blind to. Not a great story for sure, but daisy chaining unmanaged switches does make troubleshooting a tad more difficult and I'm going to try and avoid it where possible now.
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Daisy chaining should never even be done. People do it because it works. The real way is to run a single network cable to each point back to a central switch. The only way is to uplink switches by fibre.
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Nice to see that you embrace flexibility in your approach and take the requirements into account.
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I always do. I never said doing it that way is wrong - it works so it's all good. Chill.
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You definitely did
I don't see the word wrong in that sentence. I said it should never be done. Not that it was wrong
Don't you start Zefan or I'll get those T-shirts printed then hand them out in London mind...
Good lord guys, this has got heated....
Thanks for all the tips - was going to ask which brands were recommended, but can see that's been answered already!
Re daisy chaining - yes agree, although not entirely sure how I could do this more neatly (it's basically running to the bedroom where I have a telly, steam link, Amazon fire and Nintendo switch, so need four ethernet cables there. Hence one switch in the bedroom works nicely. Don't think I'd want to run four cables all the way through the floorboards, because chances are I'd want five, then six in a few months.....
Thanks for all the tips - was going to ask which brands were recommended, but can see that's been answered already!
Re daisy chaining - yes agree, although not entirely sure how I could do this more neatly (it's basically running to the bedroom where I have a telly, steam link, Amazon fire and Nintendo switch, so need four ethernet cables there. Hence one switch in the bedroom works nicely. Don't think I'd want to run four cables all the way through the floorboards, because chances are I'd want five, then six in a few months.....
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Daisy-chaining is a perfectly good option. You just have to accept that they'll be a bottleneck where the switches interconnect. Unless you're hammering all of the ports at the same time it's unlikely to be a problem.
You're wiring your own house so do whatever works for you.
You're wiring your own house so do whatever works for you.
Home plugs could be the cleanest way really, depending on the electrical wiring condition it could work well.Good lord guys, this has got heated....
Thanks for all the tips - was going to ask which brands were recommended, but can see that's been answered already!
Re daisy chaining - yes agree, although not entirely sure how I could do this more neatly (it's basically running to the bedroom where I have a telly, steam link, Amazon fire and Nintendo switch, so need four ethernet cables there. Hence one switch in the bedroom works nicely. Don't think I'd want to run four cables all the way through the floorboards, because chances are I'd want five, then six in a few months.....
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