Home Lan

[Pe-Killer]

HI
I like to organice a lan party every now and then at my house, Now recently I have been upgraded to a 4mb line So now we all like to play online instead of just playing agaist each other.
We normaly sit in a diffrent room then the internet router becos of the tellephone cable.The d-link router has 4 network ports we use a 16 port switch in the other room to connect me and all my friends to a network.
At the last few lans i been using one network cable to conncet the switch to the internet router which is in the other room. To give us access to internet.

But lately I been wondering if it will be better to use more then one network cable from the switch to the router?
will it be better or is one cable from the router to the switch enough?
Am using a D-link DSL 2540U router.

 

[to0kenZA]

HI
I like to organice a lan party every now and then at my house, Now recently I have been upgraded to a 4mb line So now we all like to play online instead of just playing agaist each other.
We normaly sit in a diffrent room then the internet router becos of the tellephone cable.The d-link router has 4 network ports we use a 16 port switch in the other room to connect me and all my friends to a network.
At the last few lans i been using one network cable to conncet the switch to the internet router which is in the other room. To give us access to internet.

But lately I been wondering if it will be better to use more then one network cable from the switch to the router?
will it be better or is one cable from the router to the switch enough?
Am using a D-link DSL 2540U router.

Think about it dude. From the router to each PC there will be a hypothetical MAXIMUM data transfer of 4mbs. Say you have 10 PCs. Now that would be a maximum hypothetical transfer rate of 4 x 10 = 40 Mbps. Your uplink to the router from the switch is 100mbps. So no, you don't need another cable . On the breakout side though, your bottleneck would be your internet connection, but this is about your LAN, so on the LAN side there won't be any trouble.

 

[davemc]

One cable capable of transmitting at 100mb/s is more than enough to connect to a device that is providing a 4mb/s service.

 

[to0kenZA]

One cable capable of transmitting at 100mb/s is more than enough to connect to a device that is providing a 4mb/s service.

Yup, don't think the data transfer would ever go above 4mb from the switch to the modem? Simply because the modem cannot transfer more than 4mb at any given time?

 

[jbaillie]

ou have one other problem and this is from the owner of Frag Lan is power general rule thumb 20 pc will trip the earth leakage

 

[Bronzed_Skarab]

Very much doubt it will trip earth leakage. May trip a circuit breaker due to too much current drawn on the system.

Use some heavy duty extension cables to bring power from a plug in a different room (make sure it operates off a different circuit breaker)

 

[daffy]

Running 2 cables between switches will cause a Layer 2 loop.
Either this will cause a massive broadcast storm which will bring your network to its knees, or one of the switches will figure out there's a loop and disable one of the ports.
Basically, its pointless.

 

[to0kenZA]

Running 2 cables between switches will cause a Layer 2 loop.
Either this will cause a massive broadcast storm which will bring your network to its knees, or one of the switches will figure out there's a loop and disable one of the ports.
Basically, its pointless.

I suppose if you REALLY want to, you can add both cables to separate VLANS and seperate your hosts in two groups. But then you will have to do some addtional configuration on the router to route between the VLANS. Which is pretty much total overkill for a home LAN lol