Spec Me a Gigabit Router

littledave

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Looking to upgrade my network to gigabit, what with all my PC's and the PS3 all having Gigabit NIC's currently using a WRT54GS, on Virgin 20Mb.
 
I don't think there are many (cheap or reasonably priced gigabit routers), it's probably better to just buy a gigabit switch and use it alongside your existing router.
 
Having a gigabit router wont help you cause to be honest as youll have no where near the throughput needed for it to be effective, concentrate on switching equipment for connections between internal hosts.
 
So you reakon a gigabit switch would be better then, tbh its just for the streaming and such.

But i dont see the point in having the router then as everything will be plugged into that and then the router will supply the internet
 
littledave said:
So you reakon a gigabit switch would be better then, tbh its just for the streaming and such.

But i dont see the point in having the router then as everything will be plugged into that and then the router will supply the internet
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Streaming from the internet, or over your local network?

Streaming from the internet it won't make a difference you internet connection is the bottleneck. Streaming and file transfer over your network it should improve performance.
 
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Streaming videos from my pc to the ps3.

I thought about plugging the ps3 into my pc direct and setting up ICS but i dont really want to do this.
 
just buy any 5 port gb switch, i've got a belkin one (shudder), but it works perfectly

also, what version is your router, you might be able to install Tomato firmware on it (if it's v1 - v4)

Tomato firmware is awesome
 
littledave said:
Streaming videos from my pc to the ps3.

I thought about plugging the ps3 into my pc direct and setting up ICS but i dont really want to do this.
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A gigabit switch will not improve this. Streaming works fine over the PS3's wireless, so why would you need a gigabit connection to do the same thing :confused:

You won't get any benefit with a gigabit network for streaming, but you would see a benefit if you were moving files across the network to your PS3 and playing them locally from the PS3's HDD.
 
bledd. said:
just buy any 5 port gb switch, i've got a belkin one (shudder), but it works perfectly

also, what version is your router, you might be able to install Tomato firmware on it (if it's v1 - v4)

Tomato firmware is awesome
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Im running v4.71.1, Hyperwrt 2.1b1 + Thibor15c firmware, which i found better then the tomato.
 
Rudeboy said:
A gigabit switch will not improve this. Streaming works fine over the PS3's wireless, so why would you need a gigabit connection to do the same thing :confused:

You won't get any benefit with a gigabit network for streaming, but you would see a benefit if you were moving files across the network to your PS3 and playing them locally from the PS3's HDD.
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Isn't streaming and copying a file over effectively the same thing? :confused: The PC is still sending the data over the network to the PS3. I'd be surprised if you can effectively stream HD 1080P video over wireless.

To answer the original question, I have a D-Link DIR-655 and haven't had one bit of bother with it.
 
I found the difference between gigabit and wireless using the media center on the ps3 to be huge. Try fast forwarding anything via wireless... then try it on gigabit
 
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