I will try and be succinct but include all the details, any help would be greatly appreciated!
I live in a rural area and my only option is starlink which I've used for 5 years now so I have a Gen 1 dish and router; this means I don't need to have an ethernet adapter as I can plug any router into the power supply for the dish. I've never had the need for a different router, until now, and it only has 1 port on it.
I have a new build home with 10 cat6 cables (one of which comes from my cameras nvr) ran to all the different rooms that all come together in the hall closet/structured media box. Currently I only have the office cat 6 plugged into the router but ideally would like them all to be connected should the need arise to have hard wired connections in the other rooms.
Additionally 1 of the cat 6 cables runs 40 feet to my detached workspace catty-corner to my house into another structured media box where I'd like to put another router/access point/mesh node(the wifi connects but barely works). However whatever i put there I would like to have 3 more cat 6 cables hard wired into the ap/node so that I'm not using all my wifi bandwidth on the devices/tvs out there.
I've tried looking up the best way set this up and honestly I just keep getting lost. I saw a previous post from about 2 weeks ago about a tp link 3000 router being used as the main router and another as an access point but the main router wouldn't have enough ports(looks like theres normally 4). Do I have to have a switch in the main house or are there routers with enough ports (i dont mind replacing starlink router)? And is that something I can just plug all the cat6 cables into the switch and then plug that into the router?
Obviously I'm not very savvy with this kind of stuff, but I appreciate you taking the time to read this and any help.