Advice Needed : Gigbit switch vs relocation

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Hullo Gents

I have a 100mb FIBRE connection. I just recently bought an Archer C9 Gigabit Router, which is sitting on the far end of my house in the study. My consoles are sitting in my TV room. I have a 20m-30m CAT5 cable running to a 10/100 switch in the TV room and the consoles hooked up to the switch.

Now, my question is, which of the 3 options below would give me the best possible gaming connection :

1) Relocate the fibre to the TV room and hook up consoles directly to the C9 and do away with the switch
2) Swap to a gigabit switch, but leave everything else the same
3) Don't change anything, as there will not be any performance improvement from above

Option 1 is the most expensive while option 3 is obviously free. Option 2 is somewhere in between.

Please let me know your thoughts.
 
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Unless you max out your Fibre connection regularly, you won't see any performance increase from using the Gigabit switch.

Moving the fibre and bypassing the switch probably gives you less than 0.01 ms latency decrease, so not noticable.
 
Cat5 is not gigabit either, so you'd have to rewire. Cat5e would work.
 
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You will never see any improvements, not even if you upgrade your switch and internet to 1Gb, so leave as is
 
Option 2 and upgrade to Cat5E (which I assume you actually already have), because gigabit is love, gigabit is life. :D
 
+1 for #2. When local traffic between console and TV saturate console link, your gaming latency will increase dramatically. So don't let anyone to watch local movies in the same time! Gigabit switches are not expensive, just make sure of using Cat5e cable.
 
I love the Archers, I have a D9 with the ADSL modem but just use it as a router these days.
Option 2, Gigabit switch plus rewire with CAT5e, also remember to get CAT5e fly leads for your consoles.

Depending on your wifi needs and coverage, I wonder if it will work if you put the switch in your study in to which you can plug the fibre, then move the Archer to your TV room and connect your consoles directly to it? I'm not sure whether the fibre will work threw a switch or whether it must be plugged directly in to the WAN port on a router?

I'm actually about to buy a Gigabit switch, they are not at all expensive anymore https://www.takealot.com/tp-link-8-port-gigabit-mini-desktop-switch/PLID43682674
 
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bigboy529 said:
I'm not sure whether the fibre will work threw a switch or whether it must be plugged directly in to the WAN port on a router?
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All depends on the fiber box. Typically it is a managed switch, not a router. You need a router, as ISP gives you one IP address, no more.
 
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