Gigabit Network with ADSL

[phiber]

Hey Guys,

I am looking to get a gigabit switch to connect to my 10/100 adsl router. Now i will have my adsl router connect to the net, and then plug that into my 10/100/1000 switch. If i connect all my machines to the gigabit switch, will i get gigabit speeds on the network, or will i get limited thru the 10/100 router? From what i understand, i should get gigabit speeds, as long as my local routing goes thru the gigabit switch.

 

[dj_jyno]

Hi phiber

Yes, you will get Gigabit speeds on all the ports that are connected to Gigabit-capable equipment.

 

[phiber]

Cool thanks, i didn't phrase my exact question they way i should have. Sorry. My main worry is if i use DNS on my 10/100 router and then plug in a 10/100/1000 switch to it, does transfer go back to the router often to slow me down? Or does the switch get an ip from the router and then assign ip's to my pc's?

 

[ColinR]

Hubs used to work that way as far as I recall, no traffic bound between two machines on a switch will travel to any other destination, so will run at Gigabit speeds. Only your internet connection will be connected at 100mbit (you wish!)

 

[Nerfherder]

Cool thanks, i didn't phrase my exact question they way i should have. Sorry. My main worry is if i use DNS on my 10/100 router and then plug in a 10/100/1000 switch to it, does transfer go back to the router often to slow me down? Or does the switch get an ip from the router and then assign ip's to my pc's?

Like to post above said... a switch is intelligent, it will find the fastest path between the two ip's. So if you are copying between to pc's on the switch it will keep it a 1 gbps. DNS just assigns ip's it wont affect internal routing, I have seen this work at big lans. Two people can connect at 10/1000 if they both plug in to the 1000 port on the switch, even though the rest of the network is 10/100.

 

[phiber]

Awesome, thanks guys. Now all i need to do is get a new switch and 200m of cabling

 

[Asha'man X]

I wouldn't worry about DNS speeds, DNS packets are byte sized so they fly no matter what network speed.