How to connect multiple devices to one Ethernet port
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Hello,
I will soon have a Livebox 7 installed at my home. It will be installed in my garage. I have an RJ45 cable coming out of my DTI that will be connected to a port on my Livebox to bring internet to my living room. Unfortunately, I only have one RJ45 socket in my living room, and I would like to connect my smart TV, a TV decoder, and a Wi-Fi 6 repeater in access point mode. Can you give me a solution to my problem? I was thinking of plugging a switch into my only RJ45 socket in my living room to have multiple Ethernet ports and thereby connect my different devices to it. However, I have read on various forums that there are issues with the TV decoder and the Wi-Fi 6 repeater when connected to a switch.
Would it be possible for you to advise me?
Best regards,
Thank you in advance
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Hello,
But I read in different forums that there were issues with the TV decoder and the WiFi 6 repeater connected to a switch.
What would be great is to know what types of problems because that way, what you want to implement is technically what I have at home and it works without any issues (it's just that I'm neither with Orange nor on WiFi 6).
Cheers blux "Stupid people will do anything.
That's how you recognize them."
Hello,
You need to stop reading other network forums than this one, or at least check out good ones like lafibre.info, but that might be a bit advanced for beginners.
TV decoders connect just fine through a "normal" switch, as long as you don't start messing with VLAN tags, but for that, you also need a managed switch; a basic switch is transparent to VLANs.
So don't stress over unnecessary questions, a basic 5-port 1000BaseT switch will make you happy.
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Hello
You need to think about a complete network, not just a single cable.
With just one cable, the bandwidth is limited; you divide that limited bandwidth by the number of devices. That's why a patch panel is set up near the source, with all the outlets connected star-wise directly to that patch panel.
Seriously, with a full basement near the garage, a friend ended up with an office, a living room, a TV, and a video game room in the basement, buried near the fiber access.
Hello,
Seriously, knowing that a Premium fiber offer has a speed of 8 Gbits/s (I believe it's 5 theoretical for a Livebox 7) and an Ethernet cable, even category 6, has 10 Gbits/s?
The potential limiting factor is not the cable, possibly the speed of the switch, but that should also be at least Gigabit in principle.
How do companies that indeed have patch panels manage, but have so many connected devices that there could be a switch downstream of one of the cables?
Hello
You live in the world of business, and you are right. We are at the mesh network stage, where each device can relay Wi-Fi and it creates a mesh that emits in all corners.
I just fear one single cable already installed back in the days of the phone for a private individual (I still wish him an excellent result), but I live in a less ideal world here at home, and I see the discussions here on ccm afterwards...
The standard today is 2 sockets, so 2 cables for the main internet room in new builds recommended for 2024...
https://izi-by-edf.fr/blog/comment-avoir-internet-sur-toutes-les-prises-rj45/
Hello,
if the 2016 standard recommends 2 gigabit or 10G RJ45 outlets in the living room, it is to connect a TV antenna via RJ45 on one of the two, thus having a single type of home wiring (Grade 3 cable or grade 2 TV), the installer is allowed to also install a coaxial outlet next to it, but he is not obliged to.
Both outlets can also be used for Ethernet.
On a a single limited cable, you divide the limited bandwidth by the number of devices. That's why a patch panel is installed near the source, all outlets have a star-connected cable directly to this patch panel.
No, you share the bandwidth, you don't divide it. That’s when everyone wants to talk at maximum speed at the same time. So, apart from a data center, I don't see that in a private home.
The patch panel is installed near the source simply for the practical aspect of centralizing all the outlets. In any case, your box doesn’t offer n times x Gb/s.