Managed router.
Reverse the polarity.
Assuming that you have a 1 gb network, you will have to share bandwidth. Frankly, your VOIP phone probably needs kilobytes, not megabits, to function well. Relibility (qos) is more important. I think you would have to go with a low end desktop switch with qos on it, but also on the switch feeding your line on the other end.
wouldn’t it be easier and cheeper to get a voip cable modem? then any base station powered off the modem can supply phone for the whole house.
Only one way I can see to do this:
Put a GB switch between the wall and both devices, give up the existing POE, and get a power supply for each phone.
There are power bricks that supply POE for one device.
You’d need a managed ethernet switch.
The plug out of the wall connects to the phone, the ‘uplink’ port on the phone connects to the pc... the PC & the phone each have an IP address... in the switch, you’d allocate bandwidth to each device by IP address on the physical port the wire connects to.
Something like this might work. The uplink port will provide 1 gig to the access switch while the regular ports will autonegotiate whatever speed the computer/phone are using. At full duplex on the uplink you should have an effective 2G speed.
http://www.mcmelectronics.com/product/TRENDNET-TEG-S5G-/831-2390
Thaw the chicken!
Unless you are at an office where things like CAT scans are transferred by network, or nuclear simulations, you probably aren't. And if you are at an office, let your IT staff handle it.
Just because you have a gigbit interface card in your desktop does NOT mean you are getting that much traffic. In fact, if you have DSL or cable, a 10Mbit interface is more than adequate.
/johnny
I would not usa a hub. Get a switch. You can get them practically any place even Wal-Mart.
I would not usa a hub. Get a switch. You can get them practically any place even Wal-Mart.
I would not usa a hub. Get a switch. You can get them practically any place even Wal-Mart.
buy a hub/switch that is auto sensing
waynesa98 recommended VOIP cable modem. That would introduce network reliability issues for your phone system. When any node in the series of nodes you connect through to central office goes down, every node after that one goes down. i.e., your VOIP is also down.
Just get a cheap switch from monoprice. I Always try monoprice first.
I’m no expert but you don’t want a hub. A switch is smarter and directs traffic to a specific device.
Your router probably has a 4 port switch already. Usually you can stack them 2 deep.
You set the QOS at the router.
I run one cable from my router switch to the AV area then have a switch for the PS3 and the TV. Another from the router switch to the next room for my PC’s and printer.
Two router connections / 5 devices.
Switches are usually very simple plug and go affairs.
You'll be auto-sensing to 100mb and the computer will have to plug into the phone.
That said, you really don't need more than 100mb to the desktop. Lot's of studies have been done on this. Absent an EXTRAORDINARILY POWERFUL desktop doing extraordinarily unusual things, you'll likely never notice the difference.
A dedicated 100meg pipe is a BUNCH of bandwidth.
You need a PoE Switch. PoE means the ethernet line has power on it. Most switches dont do that because computers don’t need it. Most phones, however, get their power from their signal line so they need it. This is something more than just a gigabit 10/100/1000 ethernet switch so don’t just go buy one from walmart. But that is also less than a managed ethernet switch so don’t go waste your money on one of those. Go to amazon, put in ‘poe switch’ and look for one that has gigabit (or it might say 10/100/1000). ALternately you could get any old cheap gigabit switch and also get a device which inject power into the ethernet line. That is probably the cheaper route. If you search amazon for PoE switch some devices like that will be in the list.
Get a cheap 4 port gige switch at best buy. Netgear is good.