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| Thread ID: 146094 | 2018-04-21 05:46:00 | Is 200mbps fast for a switch to watch Netflix? | undiejuice (16495) | Press F1 |
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| 1448701 | 2018-04-22 22:35:00 | It all depends on how your network is set up. You would not want to have your higher speed switch downstream from a lowerspeed one but the other way around is ok. it all depends on what you wish to achieve. | CliveM (6007) | ||
| 1448702 | 2018-04-22 22:49:00 | Unless you have FAST fibre internet , or an SSD HD's , 100Mb is usually good enough for many things 1000M switches cant..transfer..data..faster..than..the..hard drives..speed. :) And some recent laptops only have 100M network adaptors . Hard to believe manufactures would stoop that low |
1101 (13337) | ||
| 1448703 | 2018-04-22 22:57:00 | Hey, just an after thought, if I get another switch (switch with a higher Mbps) as mentioned above, this would also mean I would have to upgrade other switches on my network that don't have a higher Mbps, as well ? I have 2 switches (old ones) and a new one (which I bought on Saturday), roughly the same Mbps Can you give us a layout of them? I had a friend who did this . 100Mbps fiber internet then a network cable thru the walls (new house) to his lounge . 2 desktop computers with SSDs . He used a 100Mbps switch to split from the wall to the 2 computers but he was fine because he seldom (never) did copied files . 100Mbps is really fine depends what you use it for . If you copy large files from one computer to the next . . . perhaps . Maybe in the future fiber optic internet 100Mbps becomes the minimum 200Mbps then yeah . . . the 100Mbps switch would be limiting it . But again it depends what you use it for . Even if you have a 200Mbps internet but you only surf the web and watch videos should be fine . Downloading would be slower . Oh . . . but normal hard drives can go faster than 100Mbps ;-) |
Nomad (952) | ||
| 1448704 | 2018-04-22 23:10:00 | 100Mb is good enough sure, 1000Mb is just better and the price difference makes 100Mb redundant IMHO. Why buy outdated hardware if you don't have to. Also a modern 2TB HDD can sustain file transfers in the 100-200MB/s (as opposed to SSDs which tend to be 500+) range which is 800-1600Mb/s so a 100Mb switch doesn't even come close. The network speed is usually the limiting factor for file transfers even with gigabit speeds. I have a 8TB NAS that I back up to a networked PC fairly regularly, over a 100Mb connection that's just not practical. Even if you were to say it is more like 60-100MB/s (which is was once upon a time) that's still much faster than a 100Mb switch. In case you missed it windows reports file copy speeds in Bytes per second and network switches and internet speeds are rated in bits per second, so for anyone who didn't know (I'm sure most regulars here are well aware) that's an 8 x difference (8 bits in a Byte). Not trying to talk down to anyone here, just pointing out a common error when comparing disk speeds to network speeds. There are also network overheads that use some of the bandwidth meaning you can never actually hit the max speed of 100/1000 Mb/s so a 100Mb switch will actually very slightly restrict a 100Mb internet connection. So for streaming from an internet connection of 100Mb or less - sure it's perfectly fine. For anything else it's a bottleneck you could easily avoid for $10 more. Depends on your personal use. |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1448705 | 2018-04-23 00:06:00 | was watching Netflix fine on spark vdsl @37.4mbs without any issues and now have 200MBS Spark Fibre also fine.....100mbs would be heaps..... | Koenig Tiger (14621) | ||
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