Building a Gaming Lan - Switch not working

JGBR said:
RJ45 6E

Can one cable between switch and router and router and model take the strain tho?
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That'll be Cat6e cable, RJ45 is the type of connector on the end :)

And unless your dangling the router by the cable, it'll be able to "take the strain" :p Most home router switch ports are 100Mbps, so unless your internet connection is 100Mbps I wouldn't worry in the slightest!
 
their all connected on 1000mb (1gb) ports.

its internal speed im worried about for internal gaming, not the internet connection.

is their any best way of cabling. connecting some direct to router and not switch or multiple switch to router etc?

the cables can cope with multiple work on one just one cable?

Net, internal gaming, NAS etc?
 
JGBR said:
their all connected on 1000mb (1gb) ports.

its internal speed im worried about for internal gaming, not the internet connection.

is their any best way of cabling. connecting some direct to router and not switch or multiple switch to router etc?

the cables can cope with multiple work on one just one cable?

Net, internal gaming, NAS etc?
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If you look at my example that is how I'd recommend you set up the network; one uplink from the Switch to Router and all other devices connected to the Switch, this way all devices (bar the router) can talk at 1Gbps; the only traffic that will be going up the link to the router is Internet traffic, DNS requests and DHCP.

You will be able to run everything you want on the local LAN, I have a similar set up at home and stream videos to my PS3 while playing games on my PC and there are no slowdowns at all; 1Gbps really is quite a lot of bandwidth - I'd be very surprised if you get any problems.
 
So the switch is the little Lan in itself, the router is just guard over the internet and keeping a little log of whos who?

I could not understand if all the machines on switch get a dedicated 1gb port but then only connect one one cable to the router , what performance impact that would have - your saying nothing bar internet traffic will use that single cable the rest will all have seperate gb port bandwidth?
 
There will be no performance impact as the switch will just send the data between one computer and another, the router will just handle internet traffic and assign out addresses so they can all talk to each other
 
so the work (brawn) is being done by the device dedicated to being fast -switch- the router is the brain and security.
 
For 99% of situations having your net connection on the same network as your LAN is absolutely fine.

If you have a really good net connection (>50Mbit) and are also obsessive about your LAN file sharing performance, setting up a second network just for internal traffic does have a few small advantages.

If you're going to do that it's only worthwhile if you get decent gigabit nics in as many devices as you can (Intel Gigabit CT's are pretty good value). You'll also want Jumbo Frames enabled for best performance so check that your switch and the other devices (like your NAS) on the internal LAN support them.
 
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well at present I have a hodge podge of machines connected to switches and routers,

It seems wiser to now put them all on the switch with just one link to
The router/modem.

I do have 3 separate routers so can dedicate one to wifi access etc and them
All have faster connections via the switch.
 
A switch will not have DHCP server built in.
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You can communicate over the switch, but do this manually with setting IPs. Try nmap'ing the entire network and see if you can see the other hosts, run a few ping scans also. The switch will be unmanaged so it's essentially an extension lead.

Like others had said, to reach full potential you need a DNS and DHCP server on that network. (In comes the router).

If you want it to get onto the internet then hook the router up to your modem, if not leave it off.

If you want two networks, set up something like this.

Network 1:
Modem > Router > Switch > PCs

Network 2:
Router > Switch > PCs

If you don't want wireless, set a WPA password on the router then disable broadcast. some even let you just turn wireless off.
 
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