It is 6 years since I have been involved with networking and cabling and things have moved on since.
1. My current home setup is as follows:
a. Talktalk broadband connected at 20meg.
b. Netgear DG834G v4 adsl2+ modem router
c. 1 PC with Asus P5Q Pro motherboard with E8400 C2Duo and GBIT LAN . This is an occasional IL2 game server.
d. 1 PC with Gigabyte EX58-UD5 motherboard and overclocked i7 920 with 2 x GBIT LAN.
e. 2 x eConnect HomePlugs (85meg)
The PC (Item c) is in another room and connected to the router using homeplugs. As one would expect the speed when copying from one machine to another is limited by the lan speed of the router (not being Gigabit).
2. Proposed setup:
As above, + purchasing:
a. NETGEAR GS605 5-Port Gigabit Desktop Switch.
b. QNAP TS219P or QNAP TS239 NAS (not sure yet..cannot decide). With 2 x 1tb mirrored drives. This is to hold all my music and converted camcorder videos, converted to digital 35 mm slides and other photographic prints converted to digital.
c. Netgear Digital Entertainer HD EVA8000 or EVA9150.
3. All the above hardware will be configured as follows:
a. The Netgear Gigabit switch will be plugged directly into the Netgear DG834G router with the rest of the hardware being plugged into the new Gigabit switch.
b. The Netgear Entertainer is going to sit downstairs and will be connected to my Hi Fi system and 46" Sony LCD 1080p TV for me to listen to all the music and to view the video files and the photographs. I will be using a further Homeplug to transmit the data downstairs.
Just a quick question please before I waste my money
:
I have been looking on the web for extra network cabling to link the system and was under the impression that Cat 5e was all that was needed. In fact I had never given it a thought until I noticed in several places that people had suggested you should use Cat 6 cable. So my question is do I use Cat 5e or Cat 6 Cable and will there be any difference in speed? Any suggestions would be gratefully received and also any comments on my proposed setup.
1. My current home setup is as follows:
a. Talktalk broadband connected at 20meg.
b. Netgear DG834G v4 adsl2+ modem router
c. 1 PC with Asus P5Q Pro motherboard with E8400 C2Duo and GBIT LAN . This is an occasional IL2 game server.
d. 1 PC with Gigabyte EX58-UD5 motherboard and overclocked i7 920 with 2 x GBIT LAN.
e. 2 x eConnect HomePlugs (85meg)
The PC (Item c) is in another room and connected to the router using homeplugs. As one would expect the speed when copying from one machine to another is limited by the lan speed of the router (not being Gigabit).
2. Proposed setup:
As above, + purchasing:
a. NETGEAR GS605 5-Port Gigabit Desktop Switch.
b. QNAP TS219P or QNAP TS239 NAS (not sure yet..cannot decide). With 2 x 1tb mirrored drives. This is to hold all my music and converted camcorder videos, converted to digital 35 mm slides and other photographic prints converted to digital.
c. Netgear Digital Entertainer HD EVA8000 or EVA9150.
3. All the above hardware will be configured as follows:
a. The Netgear Gigabit switch will be plugged directly into the Netgear DG834G router with the rest of the hardware being plugged into the new Gigabit switch.
b. The Netgear Entertainer is going to sit downstairs and will be connected to my Hi Fi system and 46" Sony LCD 1080p TV for me to listen to all the music and to view the video files and the photographs. I will be using a further Homeplug to transmit the data downstairs.
Just a quick question please before I waste my money
:I have been looking on the web for extra network cabling to link the system and was under the impression that Cat 5e was all that was needed. In fact I had never given it a thought until I noticed in several places that people had suggested you should use Cat 6 cable. So my question is do I use Cat 5e or Cat 6 Cable and will there be any difference in speed? Any suggestions would be gratefully received and also any comments on my proposed setup.
