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Is there a reason to use a dedicated switch with a home router? (lemmings.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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My work gave me a L2 switch because they were going to toss it out. Is there any reason for me to use that over the built-in switch from my ISP's router/modem?

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (5 children)

The two main benefits I see are:

A dedicated L2 switch is probably going to be faster when transferring between two connected clients
You could set up VLANs, if you have a desire to. Not sure if your wifi router has that option.

[–] ANIMATEK 7 points 1 year ago

And the most obvious one: you can connect more devices! The reason why I have one tbh.

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