gigabit question

BigJimbo

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Aug 4, 2002
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ok a router is 10/100

you have internal gigabit switch. will the internal network run at gigabit or will the router need to support gigabit as well?
 

gunrunnerjohn

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If you have gigabit NIC equipped machines connected using a gigabit switch, they'll connect with gigabit speeds when talking to each other. I have the Edimax gigabit switch and three gigabit equipped machines, they run a gigabit speeds. Obviously, my broadband router isn't a gigabit device. :D
 

cmetz

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Devices on the gigabit switch will be able to talk with each other at 1Gb/s network speed (of course, system throughput will be less), while devices on the router will talk with each other at 100Mb/s or 10Mb/s as appropriate. The router's LAN to WAN throughput will already be on the order of a few Mb/s, and so the fact that you have to drop to 100Mb/s on the link from the gigabit switch to the router should be a non-issue if you keep the fast stuff on the gigabit switch.