From: Lennart Sorensen via talk <talk@gtalug.org>
Well canada computers has a 5 port gigabit ethernet switch for $30.
A five-port ethernet switch gives you 3 more ethernet ports than you started with: one of the five is taken by "upstream" and another one is takeen by the device that used to use it. I find that it is usually worth buying an eight-port switch: - it gives you 6 more ports than you started with - it usually costs only a little more space, money, power than a five-port switch Make sure you get a gigabit switch: "fast" means 100 Mb/s, which is slower for very little savings. Some people prefer metal cases over plastic. I think plastic is fine. Finding things on Amazon or Canada Computers is annoyingly difficult. Here's a plastic TP-Link 8-port gigabit switch that is currently on sale on Amazon.ca for $22.99. <https://www.amazon.ca/TP-Link-TL-SG1008D-1000Mbps-Switching-Capacity/dp/B001EVGIYG/ref=sr_1_3_sspa> I have not carefully shopped to come up with this.