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Originally Posted by Jon T
As regards the uplink port part of your question, most(all?) home grade switches won't have a dedicated uplink port, just plug a network cable between any point on the virgin equipment and your switch. A normal network cable will do, the days of needing crossover cables are pretty much over as pretty much all router/switch ports now with switch automatically to suit the cable.
Plug the homeplugs into the virgin router, no point taking up ports on the gigabit switch when the devices won't use that speed.
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With a switch gigabit switch you won't need crossovers anyway. I plug the homeplugs into my switch as that's nearest the main socket.
Too get the full benefit of a gigabit network you need to use jumbo frames. So you'll need to find a switch that supports this. Netgear do several.
http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/lanwa...oundup?start=1
More on jumbo frames
http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/lanwa...small-networks