Adding LAN Ports To Your Router And Increasing Your LAN (Local Area Network) Speed

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Last update 11/04/19
Adding LAN Ports To Your Router And Increasing Your LAN (Local Area Network) Speed

[thisguyny]

Thank you!! I can't tell you how long it took me to find a video where someone actually explained the physical connection of the switch to their router. I was confounded by the fact that none of the ports specify in or out. Noob question, I know. But I'm glad you addressed it.

[richardlloydusa]

@Jess Evans This video is about increasing Local Area Network (LAN) speed not Wide Area Network (Internet) WAN speed
as well as increasing the number of ports available to the network. 1 Gbps LAN speed is 10X faster than 100Mbps, common switch or not that is a significant speed difference in you LAN speed. Thanks.

[richardlloydusa]

@Kenny Hassal It depends. If your router has 1Gb/s ports and the switch has 1Gb/s ports you should Cat6 if you want to make your router ports part of your internal 1 Gb/s network. If your router is only has 100 Mb/s ports Cat5 is fine. Even if both devices have 1 Gb/s ports but all you are doing with the router is relaying your internet connection to the switch Cat5 is fine as most people's internet speed is well bellow 100 Mb/s.

[MrDieseldog]

Thanks Richard...your Videos are very informative and helpful to non -techno folks...and i have sorted out some major problems I have had, thanks to your videos all is sorted....Cheers and another big thankyou.I have subscribed and looking forward to more videos.

[paddle_shift]

Well, assuming you had a gig router, the connection between the switch and the gig router is 1 gig. The 7 remaining gig ports on the switch if all are in use are 1 gig /7 ports or roughly 141 megs per port. You can't squeeze 7 gig of data through a 1 gig connection. If only 1 of the 7 ports are active, then that 1 port would see the 1 gig throughput (theoretically), 2 active ports 500 meg and so on.

[garyjoachim]

wish i came across this 2 days ago, i have a 100 Mbps switch( 5 ports). i have been transferring files from an old NAS to a new NAS unit. only 22 hours to go.. will upgrade the switch to a 1 Gbps once this has copied across.. thanks Richard.

[technicmasters]

Connect the Internet IN cable to the swich and all the other devices to the swich and connect one cable from the swich to the INTERNET IN port on the router. Now you will have a 1Gb link to the internet and 100Mb link to the router

[Kevin-LM]

thanks for the video, great to know as im learning, this place helped me with the information i need to gather to connect my philips hue with a bridge using an added port and connect it to the router, thanks! gigabit is what im going to use.

[unknown_channel_name]

You solved all my questions at once. I use my old pc as a media server but as both the pc are connected via an old router that has only 100mbps ports on it. Local file transfer is terribly slow at 11mbps. I will be buying a gigabit switch soon. Thanks again.

[MikeGuilmot]

And don't forget to throw out your old Cat5 cables, and replace them with at least Cat5e/Cat6 :-) I finally installed a switch between my servers, and the speed went up 6-7 times for backups and data transfers, so it is worth the 30-50€/$ :-)

[BillAnt]

Great trick... but this was in 2013. Nowadays you will most likely have to get a gigabit router too due to the faster internet speeds, however this trick is still valid for expanding the limited number of port on the back of your router. ;)

[GNZOU]

Once I started buying a couple of switches and Powerline units for my home network, I found out the router my ISP had supplied had the 5th port as Gigabit Ethernet, but the Ethernet cable was plugged into port 1 which was only 100Mbps, I was getting around 48Mbps internet speeds on my PC so I swapped around and connected my Powerline unit to the Gigabit port, with a Gigabit switch at the other end of the powerline linking to my PC and now I'm getting 72Mbps, the Internet speed going to your modem may be out of your control, but the greater speeds you can manage around your network the less chance of bottlenecks.

[TEAMPHHrollsUSD]

Thank you Mr. Lloyd for your great explanation.  By buying a gigabit switch and connecting multiple computers exactly in your video.Is there a need to configure anything or is it usually plug and play? 

[waqasahmed]

The gigabit/100 megabit thing about not receiving that amount from "the internet" is fair enough, but some people want gigabit speed for within the home network ie: storage, media streaming etc... but as you said, they can't connect to the internet at any faster than 100Mb/s

[esmudgethedog]

N1 cheers m8. All the best from over the pond. Thanks.

[richardlloydusa]

Wireless is not as secure as wired connection nor currently as fast. My LAN is limited to my office space so I don't have wires all over the house but it is possible to run the cables through the ceiling, walls and basement to hide them. Thanks.

[raymacias]

Nice video. I understand this is an older video, but I have a question: Can I plug my main router, with a patch cord, into an Ethernet wall socket, to extend my signal to a switch in my distro box. My main router is located in the family room and my patch panel/distro box is located in my garage. They are approx 30 ft apart. Any info you have is highly appreciated.

[misterspot]

Why not connecting the modem directly into the new switch, then feed the router from the switch? Then all your ports have greater speed directly to the Internet, and within themselves as well.

[davidsharko]

but all ip configurations run back to router at speed 100mbps, that increases significant lag and latency

[jeffherdzina]

Linksys ( Now owned by Belkin) has GB switches out. They are massive when compared to the old switches (when owned by Cisco) 8 ports as well. And do a great job when 7 Linux servers all need updates at the same time. I also have a 2nd switch waiting to be hooked up to a Dell R610 server and 4 GB ports on the server.