Cat 6 Cabling Speeds With 10/100 router and Gigabit Switch

tododo · 18 Aug 2006 at 14:56

Hi

I have just cabled up every room in my new house with cat 6 cabling and cat 6 wallplates

All so far working OK connecting to a 10/100 adsl netgear router which links to an old linksys router in the attic through one of the wallplates (where all my cabling eventually goes) and then the connection is shared from that linksys router

My question is that I am planning to buy a 8 port gigabit switch to connect to the netgear router as I can only use three ports on the linksys router in the attic at the moment so Im planning on getting a switch to replace this

One thing Im not entirely sure on is what speed would I get when say tranferring files from pc to pc........would all of the network drop down to 10/100 speed because of the netgear router or would the switch maintain gigabit speeds for this??

If this makes sense to anyone......wow

Thanks for any info

DJMK4 · 18 Aug 2006 at 15:19

Off the top of my head the network users will get gigabit speeds (although im not sure if a special wiring method has to be done with the RJ45 connectors?) but the speed between the router and the switch will only be 10/100..

Someone will probably correct me though

growse · 18 Aug 2006 at 15:36

[Sniper][Wolf] said:
Off the top of my head the network users will get gigabit speeds (although im not sure if a special wiring method has to be done with the RJ45 connectors?) but the speed between the router and the switch will only be 10/100..

Someone will probably correct me though

This is correct. If it's cat6, it'll run gigabit fine. Also a switch knows the difference between a gigabit host, and a host of any other speed and doesn't let other things get in the way of two fast hosts who want to talk to each other...

tododo · 18 Aug 2006 at 15:38

Cool thanks guys

I didnt realise this......I thought the netgear would slow ALL of the network down

Thanks

DJMK4 · 18 Aug 2006 at 15:42

tododo said:
Cool thanks guys

I didnt realise this......I thought the netgear would slow ALL of the network down

Thanks

Nah, the only restriction would be from the broadband connection, but its not as if we have gigabit + speeds just yet, then that would cause a bottleneck..

Seems fine tho..