Try to run as many wire as possible from the router, and connect each one of them to the switche(s).. then the PC connected to the switch.. something like:
Modem -->> Router --> Switches --> PC
Second option, get an access point, then you can connect wireless...
If you have, say, an 8-port router, can you put something like 24 stations on one router port, and will that be as efficient as if you had spread them out over all the 8 router ports, or would it not be advisable to do that?
The situation is that we have a main office with a cable modem, router and some switches, and 4 separate offices around 125 feet away in the same building connected to the network switch with their own Cat 5 cables.
We have an opportunity to rewire our network by relocating the existing cable modem and router into one of the remote offices. We would then connect back to the main office with the existing wire to the switch so that everyone in the main office has net access, essentially reversing the flow.
But will that one connecting wire from the one router port feeding into our switches support all the users on the switches? Or would we need to balance the load on the router ports which would mean running more cables down that 125 length so that they fed from other router ports back to the switches in the main office?
Please advise.
Thanks,
Peter Yanagawa

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