Switch to switch performance issues?

crazyswede · 11 Nov 2009 at 11:15

We are moving to a new office I just need some advice on networking. Apart from the normal cabling to the rooms we have a big room which is going to have an island of desks with about 16 to 20 people. Should I run a cable, for each computer, from the server room switches or should I run a few cable to other switches under the island and distribute the cables from there. Will there be a performance it running from one switch to another, i guess there is? The distance from the server room to the island of desks is not that great.

crazyswede

crazyswede · 11 Nov 2009 at 12:03

They are all heavy users :rolleyes:

At the moment we have gigabit switches and that will be the same in the new office.

crazyswede · 11 Nov 2009 at 16:43

I can get people to make/help me terminate the cables

The files being transfered will be quite big. There will be a lot of data tranfered and that does not include movies and stuff. Maybe a mixture might be the way to go; desktops with straight connections with sockets on the desk for laptops servered from a local switch. The sockets need to be terminated anyway :rolleyes:

There is no wiring at all yet.... no power, telephone cables or network cables....

crazyswede · 11 Nov 2009 at 16:57

11 are sharing a switch now with 2 cables going to another switch and yes they are complaining

Its all fresh and so yes putting all the cables in would be easy in theory. I think in one way by having seperate cables would make it easier to look after and more flexible. Yes, I will seperate the power cables from the network cables

crazyswede · 11 Nov 2009 at 17:51

2 cables and each cable goes to a seperate 8 user switch, so no collisions.

We are a marine survey company and we process a lot of data. Depending on what sort of processing a project can involve 100,000s of small files or 100's of 250MB files and I sometimes process 60GB files which has 500million points which I can use to make a 3d image of the seabed (I don't work over the network with a file that big

). What I am trying to say is that it is not just word documents being tranfered.

I am just trying to get it right the first time. Well sort of

crazyswede · 14 Nov 2009 at 21:25

Yes, you have to take what is said in this forum with a pinch of salt. However you can also get pointed in the right direction or even good advice by people who know like you. I will be seeking more professional advice on switch side, I was really more questioning the wiring on this occasion. I have probably answered my question myself.

It's a new build and not too large, therefore I am going to get all the network points wired to the server room. What happens there will be a mystery...

Thanks for the advice I have got so far