Home hub 6,not enough ports.
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Hi all.
Finally joined the 21st century and got fibre broadband installed at home.The new hub we have (BT home hub 6) does not have enough ports for what we need to plug in so i require a Gigabit switch,I think,but I need one with a decent data transfer speed. I also have a BT wireless mesh for another room in the house(frisbee shaped TP link kinda thing) would I be better off buying two switches so I could plug that into one too?
I hope what i've written makes some kind of sense but as you can probably tell I haven't got a scooby doo about these things.
Any help greatly appreciated.
Finally joined the 21st century and got fibre broadband installed at home.The new hub we have (BT home hub 6) does not have enough ports for what we need to plug in so i require a Gigabit switch,I think,but I need one with a decent data transfer speed. I also have a BT wireless mesh for another room in the house(frisbee shaped TP link kinda thing) would I be better off buying two switches so I could plug that into one too?
I hope what i've written makes some kind of sense but as you can probably tell I haven't got a scooby doo about these things.
Any help greatly appreciated.
For expanding your homehub, anything that is called a gigabyte switch will do what you want, and perform the same.
i,e,
https://www.amazon.co.uk/NETGEAR-GS208-100UKS-Giga...
As for the mesh thing - I'd need more details of the actual item - you call it a BT wireless mesh but then describe it as a TP LInk product.
i,e,
https://www.amazon.co.uk/NETGEAR-GS208-100UKS-Giga...
As for the mesh thing - I'd need more details of the actual item - you call it a BT wireless mesh but then describe it as a TP LInk product.
You just need to extend the number of ports on the main hub - no need to touch the BT mesh device.
Something like this will do.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/TP-LINK-TL-SG1005D-5-Port...
You will have one less port than advertised, as you will connect one port on your existing hub to one port on the new switch.
Something like this will do.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/TP-LINK-TL-SG1005D-5-Port...
You will have one less port than advertised, as you will connect one port on your existing hub to one port on the new switch.
RogerDodger said:
For expanding your homehub, anything that is called a gigabyte switch will do what you want, and perform the same.
i,e,
https://www.amazon.co.uk/NETGEAR-GS208-100UKS-Giga...
As for the mesh thing - I'd need more details of the actual item - you call it a BT wireless mesh but then describe it as a TP LInk product.
It's called BT whole home wifi which I assumed did a similar thing to the TP links we used to have.i,e,
https://www.amazon.co.uk/NETGEAR-GS208-100UKS-Giga...
As for the mesh thing - I'd need more details of the actual item - you call it a BT wireless mesh but then describe it as a TP LInk product.
Haven't really had time to look into as i've been out of the country,came home to find fibre installed.
sas62 said:
You just need to extend the number of ports on the main hub - no need to touch the BT mesh device.
Something like this will do.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/TP-LINK-TL-SG1005D-5-Port...
You will have one less port than advertised, as you will connect one port on your existing hub to one port on the new switch.
Do I need to be looking at the data transfer speed or are they all pretty much capable of doing the job?Something like this will do.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/TP-LINK-TL-SG1005D-5-Port...
You will have one less port than advertised, as you will connect one port on your existing hub to one port on the new switch.
I have three of these at home; http://amzn.eu/d/7nHd2P7
To be honest, a switch is a switch, as long as you have Gigabit Ethernet on there then it doesn't really matter.
To be honest, a switch is a switch, as long as you have Gigabit Ethernet on there then it doesn't really matter.
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