Originally Posted by
Opcode
That's what switches are made for, they actually have very little brains. All they do is take one hot line and break it up across several lines
transfer frames between interfaces. Tho read my comment below regarding the congestion and speed impacts that you will face if you do large file transfers between your main pc and the server
hosts on the switch and hosts on the other side of the uplink. Or if the server is heavily network reliant, you'd be better off running a second line straight from the router.
And why is that? Cables are super cheap, it will pay off in the long run if you just ran a Cat 6 line for the server. Sharing a single cable is only going to cause congestion
convenience as your routers built in switch is most likely only rated for 100 Mbps per port. Even if it supports gigabyte ethernet it still would cut your transfer speeds in half, and create a huge latency in the line between your main machine and the server. Just buy and run the line once, its not a big deal should take you less then 10 minutes to do it. Just run it right alongside the current line directly to your room.
Having your main PC and server on the same switch will provide them with line speed capacity between each other. Bandwidth to the rest of the network and the Internet will be shared on the uplink on an as-needed basis.