Gigabit Network setup

Phunky · 27 May 2008 at 17:10

Right, moving house and moving from ADSL back to Cable so once again need to look at getting another Router.

Now at the same time i wish to also upgrade everything to Gigabyte which will be simple as it was only the Sky Router that was holding me back before.

Thing is there does not seem to be that many Gigabit Routers out there, loads of switches but no Routers.

Now can i get away with just using a switch, most of them now can autosense any port to be a uplink/wan cant they?

I know i wont get any NAT or Firewall features and thats fine, just need to share cable modem to three PC's which can all be setup with static ip's myself.

I really dont want to have to buy a router and a switch if i can get away with it

AbsenceJam · 27 May 2008 at 17:23

You can't just use a switch, you only have one public IP address so you need a router. D-Link do some routers with a gigabit switch onboard.

oddjob62 · 27 May 2008 at 17:34

Just get any cable router and a gigabit switch. Cable from modem to router. cable from router to switch, then all PCs attached to swtich

Phunky · 23 Jun 2008 at 14:16

oddjob62 said:
Just get any cable router and a gigabit switch. Cable from modem to router. cable from router to switch, then all PCs attached to swtich

This maybe the simpler and cheaper solution but its not what im after at the moment, i want to keep the devices down the min that i need.

FrenchTart · 23 Jun 2008 at 14:20

You'll be sacrificing a lot in terms of price and performance if you do manage to track down a router such as you're talking about. You are *far* *FAR* better off getting a seperate router/switch combo.

growse · 23 Jun 2008 at 16:09

Phunky said:
This maybe the simpler and cheaper solution but its not what im after at the moment, i want to keep the devices down the min that i need.

And if you want a gigabit network, you need, at minimum, a switch and a router. Unless you find a decent router with a gigabit switch built-in, but you can probably throw away any hope of the gigabit switch being any good...

Phunky · 23 Jun 2008 at 16:11

I've currently got a Netgear FVS124G which is fine for LAN side of things but the throughput of both the WAN ports is awful (13mb/s!)

Looks like a router and switch combo then!