Bridging vs Seperate lan ports

RouterOS Beginner Basics
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Hello, this is very much a newbie question. When i setup my routerboard 450G i used all 5 ports in one bridge and I am wondering if there are any performance drawbacks to this? Should I have setup each port as a LAN port and route between each?

My basic design is the following:

Routerboard: 192.168.88.1
Port 1 - Cable Modem Connection to Internet (DHCP Assigned)
Port 2 - link to ipcop firewall with dans guard running (all my kids machines sit behind this)
Port 3 - My desktop
Port 4 - Vonage phone connection
Port 5 - spare

All 5 ports are in a bridge…

I am noticing when others in my house are doing stuff, it is bringing everything to a crawl…and just wondering if it is due to me bridging all ports togeather?

Thanks

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Hi better do following e.g. :

first go to files and backup your actual config!

/ interfaces
ether 5 (Lan) Master
ether 2 -4 Slave of Master ( ether 5 )
ether 1 ( internet )

after this create bridge
/ interface bridge
add name=“bridge1”
/ interface bridge port
add interface=ether1 bridge=bridge1
add interface=ether5 bridge=bridge1
/ interface bridge settings
set use-ip-firewall=yes
…
PCQ, Traffic Shaping is a good start point.
or read following thread http://forum.mikrotik.com/t/how-i-can-give-priority-on-port-base-in-mikrotik/52552/1


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Ok, thanks!

Will give that a try.