[Leaplist] Improving my network

[Rodney Degracia]

On Mar 29, 2010, at 7:26 PM, Damien McKenna wrote:

> Thanks for the reply.
> 
> On Mar 29, 2010, at 6:14 PM, Rodney Degracia wrote:
>> I'd suggest making the gig-e wired router be the backbone.
> 
> That's what I was figuring.  Any recommendations for one that obviously doesn't

I'm not sure what you mean by the last sentence fragment; maybe that is a typo?

> 
>> Attach the D-Link DAP-2553 to the gig-e wired router, to connect wireless devices.
> 
> Yep.
> 
>> For the remaining wired 100mbit devices, attach them to a multi-port 100mbit switch which is then attached to the gig-e wired router.
> 
> Why?  While I won't get the full gigabit connection from machine-to-machine on the switch, particularly from the PC to the NAS, it seems dumb to limit them, especially the NAS, to 100mbit.

Since each of the devices on the multi-port wired switch top-out (theoretically) at 100mbit, the multi-port wired switch will make sure that the connection  between each of the devices is 100mbit; therefore you have the most efficient connection to/from the devices on the 100mbit multi-port wired switch.

If the interface on the NAS is 100mbit and if you place it on the gig-e wired router, then devices on the switch will not be directly connected to the NAS via the multi-port 100mbit switch; instead traffic from your wired devices will travel through 100mbit switch, then up the ethernet uplink to the gig-e router then through the gig-e router to the NAS.


Rodney


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