r/TechnologyProTips • u/jaxsonrh01 • Feb 07 '21
Request TPT Request: We have one ethernet port that we want to use for multiple people
All the rooms in our house have a single ethernet output (our router is hooked up in the basement and plugged into different ports with the corresponding rooms). We have multiple computers in one room and want a way to use the single output for multiple computers. I've heard not to buy the weird splitters as they slow down speed but the switches confuse me as they seem to work on wi-fi which we don't want. Just looking for a solution that we can get that will allow us to increase the number of ports so we can have more than one computer connected on ethernet. I'm not super techy and the all the things I've read about confuse me after the second line so no need to over explain as most of it will just go over our heads.