Page 1 of Is there any problem with adding a second ethernet switch box in another room of house?

Hi - My router is in a central location and it is connected to a 24 port switch.

The problem is that in my small office I only have one ethernet wall connection - I want to get a 5 port switch to hook up my pc and games consoles 

Will adding a switch in the office slow down or disrupt my home network in any way?  

I googled it and couldn't find the answer I needed and am hoping that someone here will be kind enough to let me know.

Thanks

no, you should be fine, I used to do a similar thing, had my virgin modem going into a router downstairs, that had DHCP turned on, and was connected to a a wall socket, tv, and ps3

the wall socket was connected to a cable which runs upstairs. upstairs I plugged in another router (turned off dhcp) into the wall, and that was connected to a pc in that room, with another cable running off into another room with a pc attached.

Most switches have a specific ethernet socket for connecting to another switch/hub, but if they don't you can just use a crossover cable (or two normal cables with a crossover adapter between them).

Just make sure you connect a normal cable to a normal crossover/external switch socket, and not a crossover cable... I'm starting to even confuse myself here!

If you think of a standard ethernet socket as being A, and a crossover socket as being B, connect switches to each other by going from either an A to a B socket, or an A to an A socket with a crossover cable.

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Quote:
Rob Shepherd says...
"Most switches have a specific ethernet socket for connecting to another switch/hub, but if they don't you can just use a crossover cable (or two normal cables with a crossover adapter between them)."No switch (unmanaged) I've used for some time have a dedicated socket - and also auto detect and use a normal ethernet cable.  No twisting any more.

The rest is confusing me too.



Ste

yeh, I just plugged stuff in and it worked :) I think they've made the hardware clever enough so you don't need a Cisco qualification for any of this stuff now :)