Going 2Gbit on home network, does this sound right?

darknite · 31 May 2013 at 09:28

Ok so going 2Gbit at home. I'm confident this is all right and will work, but as i'm extremely low on funds at the minute I thought it best to confirm with someone else first. In this case, all the wonderful people on the OcUK forum!

Ok so, plan is. . .

Room Bed4 4x Cat5e ports installed.
2 ports - room Liv1
2 ports - room Off1

3x Netgear GS108T-200 switches 1 in each room. Trunked ports to give 2Gbit link to each location.

Virgin Hub linked to Bed4 GS108T switch on 1gbit link. Also ps3.

NAS/HTPC in Liv1 connected to the second GS108T using teamed 1gbit links 2gbit total. Also connected BluRay player, and TV.

Main pc (see sig) in Off1 connected to the last GS108T using a Intel dual port gig card.

So
Bed4 - Liv1 2x 1gbit links trunked 2gbit bandwidth
Bed4 - Off1 2x 1gbit links trunked 2gbit bandwidth

This will all work yes? Nothing to complex, the switch supports link aggression, trunked links etc.

Can someone confirm before I spend £240 on cabling and switches!

Cheers :-)

darknite · 31 May 2013 at 10:03

Its more a case of transferring large files, iso's etc. Current data store is around 4.6Tb. The drives in my NAS/HTC say 180mb/s, my main machine is SSD's. So transferring at nearly 200MB/s is just better. Recently backed up a mates NAS onto mine, he had around 5.5TB of data. So 15 hours ish backup on a gig link.

Its more future proof and shear amount of data. I actually keep photo and video backups for friends and family :-)

2gbit is going to be as fast as I can go for a long while. Can't see 10gbit coming down to home use prices for a long long time.

darknite · 31 May 2013 at 11:42

Why wont I see more than 1gb? My intent is to trunk links together to each switch for 2GBit. Then a pc each end running teamed links for 2GBit. Other ports on the switches will link to kit running 1gbit. These netgear switch have 16Gbit bandwidth capacity.

What am I missing?

darknite · 31 May 2013 at 13:53

Ok so you're saying there is no way for me to have a faster link than 1Gbit over multiple switches? So my only option is to wait for 10gbit gear to become cheaper?

darknite · 31 May 2013 at 14:53

Ok so looking into this, what this allows is to send 2 files at 1gbit each, or 1 file at 1gbit. It will not allow 2Gbit send on 1 file. Which, sucks. Would allow me to do 2 copy jobs at 1gbit each. So still having the time of TB copy jobs. But allowing for the cost and setup hassle I wont bother. 1gbit limit it is.