Personal computing discussed
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JustAnEngineer wrote:I have the Netgear GS108 plugged into my D-Link DIR-655 with most of my devices plugged into the switch. It seems to be cheap and effective for my purposes.
Captain Ned wrote:Showing off my utter ignorance of the OSI stack here, but I've always had some conceptual continuity issues with this. Assume bog-standard cheap Linksys 10/100 Wi-Fi/Ethernet router hooked to the cable modem, gigabit switch hooked to the router, and everything else hooked to the gigabit switch. Since the router is doing all of the DNS/DHCP/whatever, and is only good to 100 megabits, does this constrain the transfers between boxen on the gigabit switch negotiated and mediated by the 100 megabit max throughput of the router?
Airmantharp wrote:So no, that 'bog-standard' 100Mbps router/switch shouldn't affect transfers between two nodes on a 1Gbps switch, only between nodes that must talk through the router/switch.
Captain Ned wrote:Airmantharp wrote:So no, that 'bog-standard' 100Mbps router/switch shouldn't affect transfers between two nodes on a 1Gbps switch, only between nodes that must talk through the router/switch.
The blue LInksys boxen are everywhere.
Confirms my lack of knowledge about the OSI stack. For some reason I've always had the belief that the DNS/DHCP source had to be gigabit to let everything under it be gigabit. What do you want from someone who started networking with IPX over token ring?
Airmantharp wrote:Captain Ned wrote:To share a pitcher of beer .Confirms my lack of knowledge about the OSI stack. For some reason I've always had the belief that the DNS/DHCP source had to be gigabit to let everything under it be gigabit. What do you want from someone who started networking with IPX over token ring?
Captain Ned wrote:As for switches, I've got a bunch of TrendNet 8-ports I've suggested to friends and not a one has ever complained. They're cheap to boot.
Showing off my utter ignorance of the OSI stack here, but I've always had some conceptual continuity issues with this. Assume bog-standard cheap Linksys 10/100 Wi-Fi/Ethernet router hooked to the cable modem, gigabit switch hooked to the router, and everything else hooked to the gigabit switch. Since the router is doing all of the DNS/DHCP/whatever, and is only good to 100 megabits, does this constrain the transfers between boxen on the gigabit switch negotiated and mediated by the 100 megabit max throughput of the router?