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Question: Can you plug an Ethernet cable in and send wires to two devices like a computer and Xbox. I have one Ethernet wall jack and I need two lines.
Document: I have a complex wired ethernet system in my house including several switches and whole house ethernet wiring. I am using this switch to distribute two lines (cables) to each of 3 rooms on one side of my house, after a cable comes to it directly from another switch adjacent to the router located in another room. It is working flawlessly, as a simple switch should, with no need to do anything other than to plug the power and ethernet cables in.
Switches are a big seller of mine and useful in many situations. They are the simplest networking device there is -- no setup, no configuration, just plug and go.This is used when you have a device that does the routing (a router than gives IP addresses) and you don't have enough ports for all of your wired devices. You can also use it in a situation where you have one computer jack in an office or room, but more than one device.I used a network cable to plug from the router to the new switch and plugged in my devices into the switch and they all instantly worked.
This Desktop Switch is an inexpensive, non-complicated way to combine multiple cable ports in a small, energy efficient Plug and Play box. With eight (8) ports, you can use this for a home entertainment center or for your computer system. I've hooked mine up to my PC system and find that it makes sending large files from my laptop to my desktop (and vice-versa) fast and reliable. If both your Ethernet chips in both computers are gigabit (1,000Mbps), they will send at those gigabit speeds, but if one or both have 100 Mbps chips then they will send at that speed.
This is truly a plug and play product. I plugged it in to the power, plugged in my ports and it immediately started working. Nothing to configure, nothing to install and no reboots of the computer. My 4-port router was maxed out, so this makes a great extender. This is not a router in the sense that you can't connect the internet cable from your modem directly to it. You still need a router, but all you need to do is use one of the ports from your router and via Ethernet cable, plug it in to any one of the ports on this box and then you can run 7 more devices.
This is an excellent device for plugging 2 to 4 internet-using devices into a single LAN internet connection cable. I have two of these, one in the den, and one in the master bedroom. Each one has both a Home Theater PC and a Roku internet streamer plugged into them. Sometimes, I will also plug a laptop in as well, for a secure, fast, wired internet connection for my laptop. I can easily switch back and forth between each of these devices without having to push a switch or anything, because the TP-Link TL-SG1005D automatically senses which device is trying to download (or upload) over the internet LAN wire, and it automatically switches to letting that device receive and send internet data.
That means spares.In addition to not powering air, according to the manual, this device " . . .automatically powers down the ports that have no link or are connected to the computers which have been shut down, budgets power output for different Ethernet cable lengths." Very virtuous.So it's good to have inexpensive spares around. In my application, I replaced an even smaller Cisco 5 port switch with this one. It has performed equivalently at a lower price.Pros- I have two unused ports, so I expect to save a buck or more a year on power (we live in one of the highest cost power districts in the U.S.)- Intangible - Doing the right thing for sustainability- Ease of use- Worked fine in a residential gigabit implementation feeding the Netflix monster under FIOSCons- No PoE (I didn't need it for this use, and don't expect it at this price point).- No SNMP (always a plus, even for a home network, though almost never found at this price point)- Lightweight design is at the mercy of the direction your cables wish to flex- Wall wart (more cabling to wrestle)- Effective speed display
Every router/hub/switch I've ever owned (and I've owned about 15) has the power plug and the ports on the same side. This one has them on opposite sides from each other. Maybe you are in the group of users for which this is a plus. For me, it's a major annoyance. Instead of having wires coming out only one side, now they are coming out of two. It adds more clutter to my already cluttered entertainment/computer rack.Besides this inconvenience, the switch is great in every other way.
Switches aren't complicated things: you plug in the power, the ethernet cables, and you're connected. This one does the job, the transfer rate is fast, and there are no problems. I tested with my computer, doing some file transfers and such, and then with several of my video devices (tv, bd player, etc.) -- everything works fine, no glitches, expected throughput.I have several switches, some 5-port and some 8-port. (16-port ones tend to expensive, buying two 8 port switches is usually cheaper, although of course you get 14 usable ports rather than 15).
I use this switch to connect more than 4 devices to my AT&T; u-verse cable modem, which, like most WLAN modems, come with just 4 Ethernet ports. I connect my modem to this switch from one of the modem's 4 Ethernet ports, and then connect my PS3 and TP-Link powerline network adapters to the switch, so now I can use Ethernet to connect up to 7 end-use devices (3 on the modem plus 4 on this switch). I don't notice any speed slowdown, even when I have my PS3, two file servers, two TP-Link powerline adapters and one Toshiba laptop all on and working at the same time.This is a simple network switch that supports Gigabit speed (up to 2,000Mbps in duplex mode), and it works.
I actually received this through the Amazon Vine Program. I did not put it to use right away, but now that I have, I am very disappointed. I was attempting to connect two computers to the one port coming into my office. As I tried to work, it would suddenly drop the connection to both computers. While the connection came back fairly quickly, it was just long enough to lose whatever I was working on. When I plug a computer directly into the wall outlet, I have no issues. I am fortunate in that I can plug the desktop into the outlet and use the wireless on my notebook.
Answer: Yep! That's exactly what this thing is made to do. Just plug a cable from the wall into any of the ports on the back, then plug the two cables from the computer and Xbox into two ports on the back of the switch. Should work like a charm!