Gigabit LAN?

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At the moment my network runs at 100mb, my pc has a gigabit lan port as does our media centre but the router is only 100mb. I transferred a film onto the media centre and it transferred at 10mb/s.

My question is if I upgraded the router to a gigabit one would it increase the transfer speed by much?

Which router should I go for? Were on cable so it needs to be a cable router and have wireless for the laptop, the speed of this is not so important as I think the laptops wifi is only 54mb.

Thanks

edit - how is this router? http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showp... Edimax EN-9230TX-32 PCI Gigabit Network Card
 
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It will increase your transfer rate by quite a large amount. I've got a GB network and I regulatly transfer data between multiple PCs. On average I get transfer rates of about 70MB/s, but the other day I had a sustained transfer of about 85 :p.

For the small cost, gigabit LAN is well worth it. You can get GB switches for as cheap as £20. Go for it.

I don't have a clue how good that router is, but, I'd recommend a netgear DG834GT just because I have one and it's the best router I've used yet. Extremely stable and runs very well, even let me max out internet sync at 24.5Mb. Though this is with a custom firmware. Installing firmware on them is extremely simple. :p

Another reason though is that you can pick them up on ebay for about £10-15. They're 'sky branded' ones that'll need to be flashed with a custom firmware. I think that there's so many of them on ebay is because people don't know you can install a custom firmware on them, I think the netgear own firmware is pretty poo. So I'd recommend getting one and flashing it, it's a 5 minute job. :)
 
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it's useful if you do a lot of copying around the network, i get 110-115MB/s avg on my network which is about the most you will get after overheads etc.

of course you need the hdd throughput to achieve that kind of speed, you should be able to pick up a cheap gbit switch easy enough or a gbit router.
 
Thanks guys.

Kylew I have one of those routers but this is for cable internet and that Netgear is an ADSL router.

I will probably go for something like that Edimax.

Cheers
 
£60?

if you're already happy with the current router just grab a switch, much cheaper and does the same job albeit in 2 boxes.
 
As above; if you already have a wireless cable router just add a gigabit switch onto it. I would be wary of buying an Edimax router for getting decent speeds on the switch part. It maybe worth finding some reviews of it.
 
just tack a gigabit switch onto the router. The link from your PC to the net will never need to be more than 100mbit you only need gigabit to other LAN devices.
 
Ok, seems a shame to add another box in but it is half the price.

Which is a good make to go for? OcUK have a D-Link and a Netgear for £30 or would it be worth paying a little more for something like the Netgear GS105 ProSafe at £40?

Would I come from port 1 of the router to the input on the switch then connect my PC to port 1 on the switch and the media centre to port 2 on the switch?

Thanks
 
doesn't matter which port you use, so long as one of them is connected to one of the ports on the router.
For your needs, anything will do really. At home I use two of the little netgear 5port things. has worked fine for a while now.
 
I guess my HDD must be heavily limiting me or something, because on my gigabit LAN i can only transfer files between me and my brothers PC at around 18MB/s max.
 
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I guess my HDD must be heavily limiting me or something, because on my gigabit LAN i can only transfer files between me and my brothers PC at around 18MB/s max.
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Something is definately up there. Could be one of the HDDs in either PC or if you're saving to a flash drive on one end it's quite normal.
Mich also be PCI bus. If you have several devices on the PCI bus including the Gbit NIC you'll lose throughput as standard PCI barely has enough bandwidth to run a Gigabit card let alone anything else at full speed.
 
The HDDs in both PCs were purchased this year, so are not realy old. Both PCs are using onboard Gigabit LAN, and even when both PCs are basicaly idle we still wont reach 20MB/s
 
Both run Vista Home Premium, connected to a netgear gigabit switch (the old type, a blue metal box, before they switched their 5 port switches to white plastic).

A new thread may have been usefull but i didn't realy expect anyone to help me :) i was just supprised people got that high speeds.
 
It's probably vista being crap (know to have issues with slow file transfers) or bodged drivers for the NICs. try using TFTP or something to send the files and see what that does. Can also try using flash drives and linux Live CDs to check if it's vista.
I certainly wouldn't expect anything under 35MB/s on gigabit tbh
 
kylew said:
For the small cost, gigabit LAN is well worth it. You can get GB switches for as cheap as £20. Go for it.

Another reason though is that you can pick them up on ebay for about £10-15. They're 'sky branded' ones that'll need to be flashed with a custom firmware. I think that there's so many of them on ebay is because people don't know you can install a custom firmware on them, I think the netgear own firmware is pretty poo. So I'd recommend getting one and flashing it, it's a 5 minute job. :)
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Kylew - i looked at what model is supplied by Sky and its DG834Gv3 - checking on the spec of that model it only supports 10/100mbs gather than 100/1000 mbs.

I can find an altnernative Gigb Switch but i want to reduce as much clutter on my desk as possible.

Are we talking about the correct Sky Router?
 
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Both run Vista Home Premium, connected to a netgear gigabit switch (the old type, a blue metal box, before they switched their 5 port switches to white plastic).

A new thread may have been usefull but i didn't realy expect anyone to help me :) i was just supprised people got that high speeds.
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Don't worry dist, I'm finished with this thread so its all yours :)
 
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It's probably vista being crap (know to have issues with slow file transfers) or bodged drivers for the NICs. try using TFTP or something to send the files and see what that does. Can also try using flash drives and linux Live CDs to check if it's vista.
I certainly wouldn't expect anything under 35MB/s on gigabit tbh
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Actually, I had roughly the same problem using Realtek onboard on my Gigabyte 965p-ds3 motherboard (Vista x64), and another gigabit onboard on my m2n4-sli motherboard in my server (WHS 32-bit). I swapped them nboth with Intel PRO/1000 pci-e cards and now get a healthy 65mb/s sustained transfer rate. People are very quick to blame Vista when it can quite easily be hardware not up to the job.
 
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Actually, I had roughly the same problem using Realtek onboard on my Gigabyte 965p-ds3 motherboard (Vista x64), and another gigabit onboard on my m2n4-sli motherboard in my server (WHS 32-bit). I swapped them nboth with Intel PRO/1000 pci-e cards and now get a healthy 65mb/s sustained transfer rate. People are very quick to blame Vista when it can quite easily be hardware not up to the job.
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Did you do any more thorough testing? I'd be interested to know exactly which of the two onboard solutions were playing up - I've personally used the first of those two motherboards' onboard gigabit LAN without issues (In XP rather than Vista though).

And I'm using the onboard LAN of a Gigabyte DS3R-C in Vista64 now without any issues.

Not trying to argue over anything, just wondering if you've got more info of your experience.
 
Not really tbh. It was more likely to be the m2n4-sli one playing up since I swopped out the gigabyte one first. I originally bought the intel pro adapter to find out if that had anything to do with poor cs:s performance (It didnt - the game is just hugely flawed and really isnt fun any more). It was slightly faster by 5-6mb/s but nothing to write home about. Swopped the other and they now fly. It could be a case of poor drivers in the Home Server (Which runs on Server 2003) for the onboard, while the Intel PRO has a much better driver for server environments anyway.
It could be down to a number of factors tbh.
 
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