A question for you networking experts.
Currently, I use the ISP supplied router to go 3 ways.
2 of those spurs go to Netgear switches, (which go further via more Netgear switches), and one goes to a media server/backup drive.
Very occasionally I get loss of some internet functionality, and was wondering if the "low-tech" nature of the ISP provided "switch" capability of the broadband router gets overwhelmed by its responsibilities.
If I were to introduce another decent (such as Netgear) switch immediately after the router, leaving only one physical connection fro the router to the home network, does anyone think it will help with the occasional loss of functionality ?
TIA
Currently, I use the ISP supplied router to go 3 ways.
2 of those spurs go to Netgear switches, (which go further via more Netgear switches), and one goes to a media server/backup drive.
Very occasionally I get loss of some internet functionality, and was wondering if the "low-tech" nature of the ISP provided "switch" capability of the broadband router gets overwhelmed by its responsibilities.
If I were to introduce another decent (such as Netgear) switch immediately after the router, leaving only one physical connection fro the router to the home network, does anyone think it will help with the occasional loss of functionality ?
TIA