Soldato
- Joined
- 4 Aug 2007
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- Wilds of suffolk
I am getting BT fibre in a few weeks (was supposed to be tomorrow but openreach cant make up their mind if they fixed the issue they had when they pulled the cable, they have but their operators cant accept that)
BT have already delivered the smart hub 2 and I am going to be a socket short.
Its got 4 as they advertise but I need to plug one from the openreach modem into the hub
I need 4 as I have desktop, placed by where router will be, a network cable out to the log cabin, and 2 BT boxes to wire up
I think I need a gigabit switch. If I buy a simple 5 port from what i can tell I literally just cable from the smarthub to the switch and it auto configures to share those 4 devices across that 1 connection to the hub?
Is it that simple setting up a switch?
I am trying to think of the best setup. I assume if I take 1 to the desktop, 1 into the loft to drop down for the second BT box (in bedroom) and one outside down to the ground floor and inside then put the switch there. I can then connect the downstairs TV box and the cabin cable into that one. Which means I also have a couple of ports available down there for pluging in other devices such as laptop as and when.
Sound ok so far?
The the last question, can I put another switch at the end of the cabin cable (ie daisy chaining switches). Expanding the cable into 4 ports out there. We have TV in there and want to replace in internet devices later (spin bike, cross trainer and treadmill, all dumb right now).
Lastly, is is possible to plug into the switch out there a wifi transmitter/receiver?
BT have already delivered the smart hub 2 and I am going to be a socket short.
Its got 4 as they advertise but I need to plug one from the openreach modem into the hub
I need 4 as I have desktop, placed by where router will be, a network cable out to the log cabin, and 2 BT boxes to wire up
I think I need a gigabit switch. If I buy a simple 5 port from what i can tell I literally just cable from the smarthub to the switch and it auto configures to share those 4 devices across that 1 connection to the hub?
Is it that simple setting up a switch?
I am trying to think of the best setup. I assume if I take 1 to the desktop, 1 into the loft to drop down for the second BT box (in bedroom) and one outside down to the ground floor and inside then put the switch there. I can then connect the downstairs TV box and the cabin cable into that one. Which means I also have a couple of ports available down there for pluging in other devices such as laptop as and when.
Sound ok so far?
The the last question, can I put another switch at the end of the cabin cable (ie daisy chaining switches). Expanding the cable into 4 ports out there. We have TV in there and want to replace in internet devices later (spin bike, cross trainer and treadmill, all dumb right now).
Lastly, is is possible to plug into the switch out there a wifi transmitter/receiver?
