Gigabit Network

Kemik · 8 Dec 2008 at 14:26

Hey,

I'm looking to turn as much of my network from 100mb/s to 1gb/s. If I have a BT Home Hub router with the following connected to it, what would be the best way to upgrade the speed of the network?

QNap TS-209 II Pro (Wired)
Desktop PC (Wired)
2 x PS3 (Wireless)
Macbook Pro (Wireless)
iMac (Wireless)

I'd love to be able to get a fair amount of those wireless devices wired too. At least the Macbook Pro and iMac. The two PS3's I could leave as wireless.

Thanks.

Gaz1988 · 8 Dec 2008 at 14:28

gb switch + gb network cards in all the machines

bt home hub > gb switch > all devices.

job done

Kemik · 8 Dec 2008 at 14:32

Gaz1988 said:
gb switch + gb network cards in all the machines

bt home hub > gb switch > all devices.

job done

Thanks. That's what I was thinking. I wouldn't need to worry about the bottleneck between the BT Home Hub and GB Switch would I?

oddjob62 · 8 Dec 2008 at 14:34

Kemik said:
Thanks. That's what I was thinking. I wouldn't need to worry about the bottleneck between the BT Home Hub and GB Switch would I?

Only if you have a 100meg+ internet connection.

Kemik · 8 Dec 2008 at 14:39

oddjob62 said:
Only if you have a 100meg+ internet connection.

Haha good point. I was thinking more along the lines of streaming media from the NAS connected to the switch to the wireless devices.

J.B · 8 Dec 2008 at 15:21

Kemik said:
Haha good point. I was thinking more along the lines of streaming media from the NAS connected to the switch to the wireless devices.

Would depend what type of media, MP3s most videos will be fine, HD content might be a bit more intensive but I think it will probably be ok unless ** talking uber files.

Kemik · 8 Dec 2008 at 16:21

Thinking about this a bit more I'm not sure on the best position of the switch. The main reason for the switch is so that I have high speed access between my NAS and my Macbook Pro.

Would it be better if I put the MBP and NAS on the switch, then the two PS3's, PC and iMac on the router? How does the data transfer between the NAS and the MBP on the same switch? Does it go from the MBP -> switch -> NAS?

bledd · 8 Dec 2008 at 16:49

most 'NAS' home devices are cheap and have crap speeds anyway, so it may not make a difference

you should get at least 12mb/s from it now.. (on 100mbit) if it's a decent one

linktoinsanity · 8 Dec 2008 at 16:53

The switch is the only thing with 1000Mbps, so connecting anything to the router will not give any speed benefit from what you have now. PS3s have gigabit network adapters built in don't they? If so then you can (location allowing) connect them to the gigabit switch along with the pc and Qnap Pro. Whatever is still connected to the router will not be any different. Gigabit helps with file transfer speeds, it doesn't really help anything else at the moment. If you can get hold of a cheap gigabit switch however, go for a gigabit network between what you can