We have moved up to Washington State and are in an Xfinity area. I got a 1 Gig Gateway router and I've set up an extender with a hardwire to the extender which they call a "backhaul" mode. FYI once you setup an extender to the gateway the option to band split is removed which created a problem connecting my dog's gps collar to the home network because the bandsteering confuses it. A little googling said to take the collar and my cell phone controlling the the dog collar through the Tractive App away from the house so I only get one or two wifi bars/rings. This forces it to connect using the 2.4Ghz band which the only band the dog collar can connect to. It worked and it said now that the collar has the correct credentials it will not be confused by the band steering. This seems to be working.
My question is there are 4 ethernet ports on the gateway router. One has a red bar and is up to 2.5Ghz ethernet connection. I have to hook the two extenders directly to the gateway for the backhaul to be properly recognized. The two remaining ports I plan to use at least one or both to go to my big 1 gig ethernet switch. Would hooking the two open gateway ports both to the switch increase the overall potential bandwidth that could come out of the switch. I know all the lines will be one gig but with two lines as inputs from the gateway could the switch in essence negotiate each of the 1 gig inputs from the router to two different sources and give one gig service directly to each one. Basically are the ethernet ports on the gateway router each capable of 1 gig throughput on their own. My plan only provides 1 gig overall from the internet but in theory do two input pipes into the switch give it a fatter pipe to feed from. Kinda like how Avid and others will have a 10 gig backplane and break it into individual 1 gig pipes etc...???
John Moore Barking Trout Productions Studio City, CA bigfish@pacbell.net
