[Gllug] Stupid networking question (hardware)

[M.Blackmore]

>From the one-never-puts-in-enough-wires dept. :-(

If one needs to put 2 or 3 devices at the end of only one wire, and has
an old dim hub to use, how does it work when its attached to the switch
at the other end? 

Do I need to use a special uplink (or something) port on the switch, or
will any port on the switch in the study do (wherein resides the
smoothie firewall and the fileserver)?

And if in the nearish/mid future I get around to building the myth TV
server I've promised myself for radio and tv, will having only a single
wire lead to congestion or should I bite the bullet for that and do
something drastic like run one down the outside wall...?

Teach me not to have put even more redundancy into running wiring
downstairs before putting down the laminate flooring upstairs :-(

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