Please explain how a person would ever use 4 ethernet/hubs? Apparently I`m missing something! Thanks!
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You can plug your other home theater components into it, and use it as a hub. I actually do not - I use an external media bridge which connects better to my home wireless (all of my components are inside a custom cabinet which reduces the wireless signal strength significantly - hence the need for an external media bridge which sits behind my TV, and all of the ethernet cables plug into it).
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Use your A/V receiver as a wireless hub.You then run cat 5 cables to other components. Good luck
1942333
its a simple answer, hard wired is quicker and more reliable than wi-fi. 1) your blue ray player (the oppo unit is a must for the 5800es its amazing quality) 2) your ps3 3) for the stereo its self 4) for the future of tvs that will be connected than ever for all internet needs...this is just my oppinon I am using 3 at this time...
1942334
It is just a switch. One in 3 out. My TV has one, my Blue ray player has one and my 4k player has one.
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You can only plug-in 3 devices, one ethernet you use to connect to your internet. I used it to plug in my game systems. Three is actually not enough in my case.
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It has one hub with 4 ports. Used to connect a game, an apple TV, a Roku and a blue ray player or TV
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Use your A/V receiver as a wireless hub. You then run cat 5 cables to other components. Good luck
1955530
NO. I also thought I would be able to hook up two computers. Even tried using two plugs. You have to get a terminal-one of those little boxes that usually has jack inputs for 4 ethernet lines. Amazon has them for fairly cheap.
876357
I'm sorry, but I dont use the ethernet; I use it wireless. I hope you find the answer your looking for. Regards.
1300324
It is 5 Ethernet port total, but subtract one port for input and the remaining 4 ports for outputs. I hope that answers your question.
809423
Yes it does work as a hub. I run my DSL modem to the switch which gives me 4 Ethernet ports out. One of those ports I run to my centralized WiFi and the others to my desktop, dish controller, printer, etc. On my WiFi I then use the Ethernet ports to my tv's. Hope that helps and by the way it works great and is a inexpensive way to expand your system.
2137473
You can connect four computers to the router. I bought mine used, and no complaints so far. Well worth what I paid for it.
2205307
Yes, I did exactly that. The network becomes an Ethernet hub among all four devices, which share the available bandwidth among them.
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Illustration: https://s3.amazonaws.com/vcgyux/EthernetCableSplitter.png Ethernet cable 8 wire only 4 of them is used. This device allows you to split the cable so that 4 wires are serving port A and the next 4 is serving port B You would have to use 2 or these in tandem. you connect 2 devices on one of these then run a regular Ethernet cable from the other end to the switch or router. you would then connect another one of this device and extend out 2 cables from port A and B those 2 cables will then connect to the switch or router. A pair of this unit allows you to connect 2 devices to the switch/router using one cable instead of 2. IT DOESN'T ACTUALLY SPLIT THE CONNECTION LIKE A TV SPLITTER.
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Not an answer but another question :-). Does this device also have more ethernet ports (4) like my present router that I use along with my DSL?? I presently have a need for three with equip. adjacent, nearby my router??? TIA for any info.
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It isn't a NAS box; no Ethernet, no file services that I am aware of. It's as esata or USB housing for four drives. Mine is USB connected to a synology NAS box and exposes each of the four drives inside as a separate device to the synology nas head which then makes those available on the network via smb, nfs, etc. am pretty sure this box will work when USB connected to OS X. I have used other devices with the same innards as this one with OS X successfully. This box may also concatenate drives (make four 2 tb drives look like 1 8 tab drive) but I wouldn't recommend using that feature; lose one of the four drives and all your data is lost. It isn't a NAS box; no Ethernet, no file services that I am aware of. It's as esata or USB housing for four drives. Mine is USB connected to a synology NAS box and exposes each of the four drives inside as a separate device to the synology nas head which then makes those available on the network via smb, nfs, etc. am pretty sure this box will work when USB connected to OS X. I have used other devices with the same innards as this one with OS X successfully. This box may also concatenate drives (make four 2 tb drives look like 1 8 tab drive) but I wouldn't recommend using that feature; lose... » Read More It isn't a NAS box; no Ethernet, no file services that I am aware of. It's as esata or USB housing for four drives. Mine is USB connected to a synology NAS box and exposes each of the four drives inside as a separate device to the synology nas head which then makes those available on the network via smb, nfs, etc. am pretty sure this box will work when USB connected to OS X. I have used other devices with the same innards as this one with OS X successfully. This box may also concatenate drives (make four 2 tb drives look like 1 8 tab drive) but I wouldn't recommend using that feature; lose one of the four drives and all your data is lost. « Show Less
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I run 7 devices with this hub and it works flawlessly and on a win7 laptop and as to your question I'm not sure what your asking so I'm taking a logical guess is that your trying to connect 5 to 7 devices and its not working? I suggest first check and see if you have the latest drivers for your devices and reboot the computer and that should solve the situation
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I had 4 hooked up at first, but I got rid of 1 & now I have 3. I used a splitter to get more than 2. Hope this helps.
2179865
You can't do that, you need two separate plugins on a router to do that. If your modem only has one ethernet plug, you will need to get a router to provide for more devices.
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You need to look at your network topology, not the EX4. There are a lot of different ways to get this thing visible on two networks, but be thankful that this thing doesn't act as a switch or hub, because connecting your two networks (physical or virtual) together, just plugging them into each other anyway, is more than probably going to create DHCP and DNS resolution hell.
110057
You need an cat5 ethernet cord. I also found the system quite buggy. Would probably gotten something else. Also wouldnt do the update but leave it as is? Troublesome but attractive hardware.
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If you notice the spacing on the ports, the designer is trying to indicate that you will have 4 ports to work with. But technical, all ports do the same thing. So, for example, if you currently have an Ethernet cable connected to your computer, you can disconnect that cable from your computer and plug it in to the far most left port yielding you 4 ports to work with whereupon one of those would be consumed by your PC, netting you 3 more ports. But technically, it doesn't matter what cable goes in what port. You end up netting 3 additional ports in this example I have given.
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We're using 4 in our lab at work. They are ~2-4' apart from each other and have not had any problems. I would suggest that when you do the initial connection that they be isolated from the other setups.Since we have 4 workstations I used a silver Sharpie and wrote 1,2,3,4 on each mouse, keyboard USB dongle so that if someone mixed them up we can get them back to the proper workstation.Also, DON'T LOSE THE USB POD. They cannot be replaced and thus your out $55.Pet Peeve: Why post a response "I'm only using one at home". What's the point?