Long story, but back during Covid I added an 8 port switch to my router and ran ethernet to everywhere I could in an old house. Two are going to access points, two are going to TVs, one to a desk inside, and another to my home office, which I am not really using anymore. I ran that one to my Peloton instead of the old laptop dock that was in there. I'm going to be adding a Smart TV in there, and my question is can I use another small switch in there, or do I need to run another line from the main switch? Ideally would like both to be hardwired and neither to rely on WiFi, but it would be much easier to add a little splitter/switch in the room than run another line. I did all of the other wiring when my office was being built and had access behind the walls.

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Posted by BabySam

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Posted on 7/10/24 at 4:50 pm to TU Rob

Yep, can daisy chain switches...for your use will be fine...

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Posted by Korkstand

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Posted on 7/10/24 at 4:53 pm to TU Rob

Yes you can daisy-chain switches. The downside is everything plugged into the office switch will be bottlenecked by the single cable going to the main switch, but that is likely to be a gigabit link and will be no problem whatsoever if your peloton, tv, laptop, etc. are all hooked to it.

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Posted by TU Rob

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Posted on 7/11/24 at 8:49 am to Korkstand

Thanks. That's what I thought, but I didn't know if there would be an issue. Both won't be in use at the same time, and I'm going to wall mount the TV and hide all the wiring in the wall, which will be easy to do, but running a completely new line from the basement and into this space would be harder.

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Posted by LSshoe

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Posted on 7/12/24 at 8:12 pm to TU Rob

For most home uses, the bottleneck is almost always gonna be your internet speed so I wouldn't worry about Daisy chaining a few switches

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Posted by LemmyLives

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Posted on 7/12/24 at 8:58 pm to TU Rob

If you look at how much bandwidth 4k Netflix and your PC browsing P0rnHub use, you'd be surprised how little it is compared to your Internet speed. Agreed with last poster, you'll be fine. I know people running five TVs on wireless connections off a single router, and they're fine.

I'm watching Netflix on my PC right now and max, it bursts to 8Mbps, which is 2% of my NIC capacity.

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