My personal PC is on the top floor of the house in the attic. The main PC in the house where the Internet cable comes in from the street is on the 2nd floor of the house.
We have the cable going into the router and then a 100mb/s ethernet cable going up the wall in the 2nd floor and coming through the floor of the 3rd floor. This way I get 100mb/s network speed.
On the 3rd floor there are 2 PC's. One is the main PC for the room and the other is a HTPC. The main PC does all the ripping of files and once that files are ripped they need to be transfered over to the HTPC. Well seeing as they are BluRays being ripped they are huge in size and take a long time to put onto an external drive and then transfer that way.
What I wanted to do was buy a Gigabit switch to connect my main PC & the HTPC to the internet. Now I have done this already with a 100mb switch and all is good. But I wanted to upgrade to a Gigabit switch to make file transfers faster. I wanted to know if it would be a problem to have a 100mb/s ethernet cable coming into the switch & then gigabit cables coming out and into the other PC's.
Yes I understand that I will only be able to get up to 100mb/s from the routher. BUT from PC to PC on the same floor. Will I be able to get 1Gb/s speeds?
I ask because if the cable coming into the switch is only 100mb/s, will it slow down the other ports?
We have the cable going into the router and then a 100mb/s ethernet cable going up the wall in the 2nd floor and coming through the floor of the 3rd floor. This way I get 100mb/s network speed.
On the 3rd floor there are 2 PC's. One is the main PC for the room and the other is a HTPC. The main PC does all the ripping of files and once that files are ripped they need to be transfered over to the HTPC. Well seeing as they are BluRays being ripped they are huge in size and take a long time to put onto an external drive and then transfer that way.
What I wanted to do was buy a Gigabit switch to connect my main PC & the HTPC to the internet. Now I have done this already with a 100mb switch and all is good. But I wanted to upgrade to a Gigabit switch to make file transfers faster. I wanted to know if it would be a problem to have a 100mb/s ethernet cable coming into the switch & then gigabit cables coming out and into the other PC's.
Yes I understand that I will only be able to get up to 100mb/s from the routher. BUT from PC to PC on the same floor. Will I be able to get 1Gb/s speeds?
I ask because if the cable coming into the switch is only 100mb/s, will it slow down the other ports?