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| Thread ID: 108994 | 2010-04-19 21:54:00 | Network advice - want to add switch | Tukapa (62) | Press F1 |
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| 878249 | 2010-04-19 23:56:00 | The desk will look like the sky tower Mine does now:waughh: Modem, Router and switch. The lounge is the same - at night with the lights off, theres bloody leds every where :lol: |
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| 878250 | 2010-04-20 01:32:00 | You can have 10, 100 and 1000Mbit devices plugged into a switch, but transfers between two will only go at the slowest of the two. It won't automatically make ALL the devices go slow, though. The most important thing to look for is to see what the backplane bandwidth of the switch is. Often, cheap switches will provide a backplane that can only process data at the same speed as ONE port. Therefore, for maximum transfer speed you can only use TWO ports at the same time. If you try to transfer more data between multiple ports, the speed goes down. The backplane bandwidth should equal the maximum bandwidth of a single port multiplied by the number of ports. A full-duplex 100Mbit port has a bandwidth of 200Mbit (Because it can send and receive simultaneously) Therefore, a 8-Port switch should have a backplane bandwidth of 1.6Gbit to allow full speed transfers on all ports simultaneously. |
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