I apologize for not just googling this, it’s one of those questions that’s hard to look up for the layman, because I’m not sure how to word the question. We have cable going into a ARRIS Surfboard SB8200, ethernet cable out to a Netgear Nighthawk R6700-AC1750 Router. Our problem is we would like to use two different stations to play games and we aren’t certain that router is up to the task anymore. Both stations are hardlined. The general speed of the wifi is not AS important as the hardlined speeds.
Could I purchase a Microtik Ethernet router, run the Surfboard to that, hardline the gaming stations to that, then run another ethernet cable to the router?
I’m trying to avoid buying the latest snake oil gaming router.
There’s no point buying a second router. If you are thinking it will offload some work from the first router, it won’t. An Ethernet switch may be all you need if you want to connect both devices to Ethernet.
The plan is either buy a whole new router to better support wired gaming, or some other option which would include the existing router. We want to keep wireless, but improve our wired gaming, hence asking if I can out a ethernet switch after a modem, before a router.