100Mbps Switch for Lan party gaming.

[JCX50]

Hello guys,

My friends and I are having a LAN party next week and we need to buy a 4 port switch and a 15m Cat 5e patch cable.
I have been looking at the TP-Link 5 Port Desktop Switch (TL-SF1005D) and was wondering if there would be any problems with our ping/download/upload speeds when gaming online with the 4 of us. Would we be capped with only 100Mbps?

switch: http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=NW-040-TP&groupid=46&catid=2316

Thanks
Jcx50

 

[KIA]

100Mb/s per port.

Gigabit will be useful if you want to share files.

 

[JCX50]

100Mb/s per port.

Gigabit will be useful if you want to share files.

Is that 50 up and 50 down at the same time?

 

[JCX50]

Also noticed this: 'the TL-SF1005D can process data at a rate of up to 200Mbps'
Is that per port?

 

[bremen1874]

It is per port, but it'll be the duplex figure (100Mbps in each direction).

 

[Captain Fizz]

If you want to share files, which for me is part of the attraction of LAN parties, go for a cheap Gb switch.
Or it will take forever to transfer large files over.

Gaming won't use anything close to 100Mb so if only for gaming, any 100Mb switch will do.

 

[JCX50]

If you want to share files, which for me is part of the attraction of LAN parties, go for a cheap Gb switch.
Or it will take forever to transfer large files over.

Gaming won't use anything close to 100Mb so if only for gaming, any 100Mb switch will do.

Thanks!

 

[GefGz]

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=NW-011-TP&groupid=46&catid=2316
Cheap, cheerful, works great.

 

[233]

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=NW-011-TP&groupid=46&catid=2316
Cheap, cheerful, works great.

Had one of these in my home network for years never a bit of trouble

 

[Steveocee]

Up to £20 there's no reason to not go gigabit.
OK gaming won't max it but 4 guys together are going to want to share a file or 2.