gigabit question

[BigJimbo]

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]

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.

 

[cmetz]

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.