Hi everyone
my dad is on Sky Broadband, his router is one of those crap Now TV Sky Hub things with just 2 LAN ports, these are being used and he wishes to run a long 10m ethernet cable to his new 55" LG TV in the next room, as the house is built with stone and wifi is absolute garbish on LGs to start with, he even had wifi issues before and bought an extender which didnt help much at all.
- all the mobiles are 2.4Ghz the only exception is the new TV, which on the poor unreliable speedtest you can get on LG APPS said he was getting between 8-18Mbps (over wifi) when hes getting the full 36Mbps to the router (speedtest through LAN'd PC) and wants to start streaming 4K (20Mbps needed at least), so advised to LAN in like me but even on high end machines like my LG OLED B8 its only a 100Mbps LAN and that sometimes struggles with high bandwidth 4K from my PC - heavily compressed 4K for streaming is perfectly fine though, netflix's 4K is only 15Mbps..
so i advised him to buy a switch so that one LAN port can turn into 4, but he says does he neeed MANAGED or UNMANAGED and as ive never dealt with swicthes before i thought i would ask the experts on here what he should do.
Im guessing its to do with DHCP and IP assignment
can anyone help with this please?
thanks
off-topic: Ive already had him seperate the 2.4 and 5.0 networks as seperate ones so he can be 100% sure what he's connected to on wifi