Will a switch slow down internet?

[asedelax97]

So I have my main router, a wap in my room, and a switch in with the wap. What I decided to do is:

Router in my room

Wap in the study

And switch in the study with the wap

Now, EVERYTHING is hooked straight into the switch. Routers wan goes to the switch, then the modem Goes to the switch, my computer Goes straight into the router because it's in my room and they are right next to each other. But my parents computer is plugged into the switch, printer in the switch, and wap is poe into the switch. Then, my computer was getting 35 down and 12 up which is usual. But my parents were only getting like 1 down and 3 up. Barely. With like a 80 ping. My ping was 25. So with that said, is the fact that my parents computer being plugged into the switch and not the router itself slowing down their internet?

[LazyLizard]

Is it a gigabyte switch?

[MaxTheMonster]

Should be fine as long as the switch matches the speed of your router, or if it's faster.

[rustikles]

If I understand correctly, you've put the burden of load balancing devices on the modem. If it's just a junky thing provided to you by your ISP, that's probably where some of your issues are coming from. So it's not necessarily the switch, but how you've set up your network.

[DXMember]

in theory it shouldn't affect bandwith nor latency

perfect switch is just a dumb piece of hardware that just interconnects some wires and does nothing but that, now if it would be a router switch or a router wireless access point with switch, then that might introduce some latency, but never bandwitch limitations.

 

Although the input on your switch will be the absolute maximum for all aggregated outputs - so if you use heavily it on one PC the other connected PC might feel it as a slower bandwith connection as it is already being utilized by the first PC

 

but just putting a black box and splitting a couple of wires from it will not affect the already existing connection by itself.

[NeatSquidYT]

Is it a gigabyte switch?

gigabit*

I don't think gigabyte switches exist

[PsychoGamingLemom]

Try having it as: Modem, Router connected to Modem and then connect the switch to the router.

 

And it would be a Gigabit switch, not Gigabyte.

[DEDRICK]

gigabit*

I don't think gigabyte switches exist

 

They do, 10Gbps(1.25GBps) switches, they aren't cheap

[NeatSquidYT]

They do, 10Gbps(1.25GBps) switches, they aren't cheap

Yeah, but that's 1.25GB/s, not 1GB/s

[LazyLizard]

gigabit*

I don't think gigabyte switches exist

Lol my bad

[Broseephus]

Adding a switch will not slow down the network in the slightest unless the switch is performing erratically.

 

Modem > Router > Switch > hosts   is how the internet should flow.

[Wombo]

If the switch is from a reputable brand then you should see no noticible difference. Modern switches do their switching in the hardware in what are called ASICs. A good switch should induce less than 1ms of latency into a network.