LAN splitter/switch

prowla

My Virgin BB just gave:

Download: 108.86 Mb/s
Upload: 7.38 Mb/s

Tested over Wi-Fi using http://www.broadbandspeedchecker.co.uk/?&again

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I'm getting 157Mbs on the south coast


Even if the OP doesn't have 100Mbs + broadband now, they will soon. When I first got VM (NTL as it was then) I was on 256Kbs.

When you can have a gigabit switch for just a couple of £ more then a 100Mbs switch is a false economy.

And remember: if you're sharing files locally across devices connected to the switch, the speed of your ISP connection isn't a limiting factor.

Fightsback

prowla wrote: »

Define "unnecessarily fast broadband"?

It's a statement made by a 19th centuary pig farmer as a means to deflect from the fact they have been demonstrated to be an anachronism.

Careful, do you know that people will suffocate at speeds in excess of 25mph.

glentoran99

powerline simple solution


one powerline "in" plug and two "out" in his bedroom, no drilling, no running cables, easy peasy

Inner_Zone

glentoran99 wrote: »

powerline simple solution

one powerline "in" plug and two "out" in his bedroom, no drilling, no running cables, easy peasy

Did you not read post#1?

RichardD1970 wrote: »

My son has a wired internet connection to his PC in his room, he is getting a PS4 with his Christmas money and would like a wired connection to this also.

debitcardmayhem

glentoran99 wrote: »

powerline simple solution


one powerline "in" plug and two "out" in his bedroom, no drilling, no running cables, easy peasy

Inner_Zone wrote: »

Did you not read post#1?

RichardD1970 wrote: »

100, going up to 150Mbps in the new year. Get around 103Mbps according to Ookla at the moment.

Got a D-Link 5 Port Gigabit switch for £11, works perfectly.

Thanks for all the input.

Seems like this post was missed too

System

Fightsback wrote: »

It's a statement made by a 19th centuary pig farmer .

Has broadband been going that long? I thought it was an invention of the 1990s not the 1890s

Fightsback

!!!!!! wrote: »

Has broadband been going that long? I thought it was an invention of the 1990s not the 1890s

Never ! You don't say !

Actually it's forefather was invented in 1832 by Samuel Morse

glentoran99

Inner_Zone wrote: »

Did you not read post#1?

I did, and I don't see how my solution wouldn't work?

Inner_Zone

glentoran99 wrote: »

I did, and I don't see how my solution wouldn't work?

It would but this is MSE, so a switch is cheaper, cable is already installed so why ignore what is already there? And the OP had already purchased and installed a switch over 24 hours before you posted your suggestion?