Can i do something like this?

[BaCkfromthedeath]

Hello people. I was just wondering if i could connect 2 pc's to the internet like this https://imgur.com/gfhY3df (the 2 top cables go to the router) , that would  simplify everything since i wont have to pull 4 cables to the pc's but just 2 that i already placed. If i can connect the pc like in the picture, how am i gonna do it? Also i know that the integrated nic's in the pc get power even if the pc is turned off so i want to know if the external nic in pc 2 (the one at the top with dual ethernet) can get power too even when the pc is off so that pc 1 will be connected to the internet even if pc 2 is off. Is all of this possible?

[Lurick]

Why not just use a switch and connect a single cable and then connect the PCs to that?

[BaCkfromthedeath]

Cause i already have a switch in my room https://imgur.com/naVdUni ( the one under it is broken and its 100 mbps only) and the pc's should go under here https://imgur.com/vGrjR8j , as you can see there are already 2 ethernet cables. I think that if i put a switch there too i just waste the dual gigabit card since it will connect to a switch that has only one cable going to the rest of the network.

[thething55]

If both PCs are Windows machine then I suppose you could use ICS (Internet Connection Sharing) but I agree with Lurick. A cheap network switch such as a Netgear would overall be a better solution as it will be more reliable and it won't require both machines to be switched on for it to work.

 

If you only have 2 cables pulled and 2 computers then I am a bit confused as to why you need 4 cables?

Are you planning to have 2 cables to each PC?

[BaCkfromthedeath]

The pc nr 2 (see picture in first post) has dual gbit network card plus the integrated one and the other machine (pc nr 1) has the integrated nic too. i would like to use the dual gbit one for the pc nr 2 and since all the cables will go to that card, instead of pulling another one for pc nr 1 (or even another one for the integrated network card of pc 2) i was wondering if i could connect the pc like in the picture. And like i said earlier ifi use a switch for the 2 pc i think i would waste the dual gbit card since the switch will then connect to the rest of the network with a single cable. Also both of the machines run linux distros (i dont think ill buy 2 ISO of windows for those); one uses ubuntu and the other one ubuntu or mint  (still have to choose).

 

[Lurick]

1 minute ago, BaCkfromthedeath said:

The pc nr 2 (see picture in first post) has dual gbit network card plus the integrated one and the other machine (pc nr 1) has the integrated nic too. i would like to use the dual gbit one for the pc nr 2 and since all the cables will go to that card, instead of pulling another one for pc nr 1 (or even another one for the integrated network card of pc 2) i was wondering if i could connect the pc like in the picture. And like i said earlier ifi use a switch for the 2 pc i think i would waste the dual gbit card since the switch will then connect to the rest of the network with a single cable. Also both of the machines run linux distros (i dont think ill buy 2 ISO of windows for those); one uses ubuntu and the other one ubuntu or mint  (still have to choose).

 

Are you actually in need of more than a single gigabit of transfer speed?

[BaCkfromthedeath]

Kind of, to transfer files to the other pc (servers) / nas 

[Lurick]

3 minutes ago, BaCkfromthedeath said:

Kind of, to transfer files to the other pc (servers) / nas 

 

Well the only real way to do that would be 10Gbit since LACP and other bundling will only work for multiple streams, depending on the load balancing algorithm used, and will not increase it for a single transfer. SMB3 is supposed to bring this, and has been for a while, but it's still not there.

 

If most of your transfers are off the uplink of the switch then you might need to look at re-arranging things. Otherwise, if they are all local to the switch, you'll be fine.

[BaCkfromthedeath]

i think that all the transfers are all local to the tp-link switch, i dont know if that changes something but basically i cannot connect the pc nr 1 to the pc nr 2 like in the picture, right?

[Lurick]

14 hours ago, BaCkfromthedeath said:

i think that all the transfers are all local to the tp-link switch, i dont know if that changes something but basically i cannot connect the pc nr 1 to the pc nr 2 like in the picture, right?

Yah, if you want it to access outside of the network then you wouldn't be able to do that with the one computer shutdown.

[BaCkfromthedeath]

ok thanks for helping me