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mr.steevo

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I want to have my router hardwired directly next to my Mac (router LAN port one) and have the router’s second LAN port connected to a switch that will connect to my internet things (TV, XBox, Sonos, PlayStation, Roku)

Will this be problematic or perfectly fine?
 

glenthompson

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Should be perfectly fine. You didn’t mention which router, most have 4 ports and many people add switches to increase that number. My Eero only has two Ethernet ports so I added a 16 port switch to connect everything.
 
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