Re: Gigabit Ethernet addition to LAN

Anonymous wrote:

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This has served me well, but I would like to upgrade the LAN to
Gigabit ethernet speeds.  I have looked for an Internet router with an
integrated Gigabit switch on the LAN side, but have come up empty.


I was thinking I could just purchase a plain Gigabit ethernet switch,
replace the fast ethernet cards with Gigabit ethernet cards, replace
the Cat5 with Cat5E/6 and then plug the computers into the new Gigabit
ethernet switch.  And then plug the uplink port of the gigabit switch
into one of the fast ethernet ports of the Internet router.


Gigabit was designed for Cat 5.  If you are approaching the length
limit you might worry about using Cat5E or Cat 6, otherwise you
should be fine.  Say less than 80m or so.

Should I still have Internet connectivity to the two computers but
with the added benefit of now Gigabit ethernet speeds between the two
machines on the LAN?

I just want to make sure I am not missing anything here. 

One you might check on is that the switch and NIC implement flow
control.  It might be that your internet connectivity runs slower,
if the switch fills the buffers and drops packets.

-- glen


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