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			<title><![CDATA[Re: Need a network guru! Question about 5 port switches and such]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[<div class="quotebox"><cite>Dutch_Master wrote:</cite><blockquote><div><p>here&#039;s a small selection in various price ranges</p></div></blockquote></div><p>Also: Literally anything that can run GNU/Linux (or BSD) and has 2 or more ethernet ports, in combination with a switch one already has.<br />Depending on what junk you have laying about (I&#039;m currently running a PCEngines APU2 as a router, but I used an old Pentium III SFF desktop for many years prior), that could mean price ~ zero with features and flexibility superior to an off the shelf router.</p><p>More generally, details on the connection probably matter here. Pretty much any fibre connection will require a router of some kind, and some require VLAN or PPPoE support on the router as well.<br />The sort of works for one machine bit inclines me to think it&#039;s straight IPv4 DHCP in this case, though it may also be using VLANs for traffic shaping.</p>]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Re: Need a network guru! Question about 5 port switches and such]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[<p>Well, TPlink was right, you need a router. Or at least a device that does NAT and DHCP. Your ISP reserves exactly 1 (one) IP address for your connection. You want to connect more then one device, so you need to share that IP address within your local network. That&#039;s what NAT (network address translation) stands for and DHCP actually does.</p><p>Suitable devices aplenty, here&#039;s a small selection in various price ranges:</p><p>Ubiquiti EdgeRouter X</p><p>MikroTik hEX S router</p><p>Ubiquiti EdgeRouter 6P</p><p>Various FritzBox router models, including those for direct Fibre connection.</p><p>Some models have WiFi, but you can switch that off, as I do too.</p>]]></description>
			<author><![CDATA[dummy@example.com (Dutch_Master)]]></author>
			<pubDate>Fri, 27 Oct 2023 22:45:28 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Need a network guru! Question about 5 port switches and such]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[<p>Hey guys, this isn&#039;t technically about Devuan so please forgive the off-topic post. Our Devuan installs are actually working perfectly.</p><p>We have fiber internet now, literally just a wall ethernet jack, no modem needed, but having a problem with switches/router.</p><p>We don&#039;t want or need wi-fi, we are connecting all directly with cat5e and cat6 cablesto the switch. Our service is 300 mbps, but old laptops only have a 10/100 NIC, but no biggie even 100 mbps would be awesome.</p><p>So I have an old generic 5 port switch that works so that&#039;s what I hooked up first (direct to wall jack). It works except for some reason it throttles everything down to 25-30 mbps, it&#039;s a managed switch but lost the password to login to it a long time ago (it&#039;s an almost 20 year old switch).</p><p>Tried an older Belkin wi-fi router that has 4 ethernet outputs, outputs all worked but router would not connect to internet, I have the password to it but no amount of tinkering would let it connect.</p><p>Bought a TPlink gigabit unmanaged 5 port switch, but it will only allow one output connection when it&#039;s plugged directly into wall, apparently something to do with IP addressing, TPlink says something to the effect that it&#039;s topology won&#039;t work being plugged in directly, it needs a router. (grrrrr, aggravating).</p><p>Here&#039;s the weird thing, <strong>occasionally </strong>I can get 90-95 mbps on one machine only, by plugging the gigabit switch into the wall, plugging it&#039;s output into the older 10/100 switches input and start by running both laptops off of the 10/100, then while running, unplug one laptop and plugging it into the gigabit switch.&#160; Doesn&#039;t work every time, and if I mess with any of it by swapping connections here and there it will stop working and i&#039;ll have to plug everything back in to the 10/100 switch. Very strange.</p><p>So I just wanted to know, does anybody know of a 5-port switch (or some kind of doodad) that CAN be plugged directly into wall jack and support the 4 outputs and give at least the 100mbps my machines can support?</p><p>Thanks for any help, been messing with this all day and have a heckuva headache now, I am lousy at this networking stuff.</p>]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 27 Oct 2023 21:38:48 +0000</pubDate>
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