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Difference between 10/100mbps switch and 10/100/1000

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  • fred246
    fred246 Posts: 3,620 Forumite
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    By the time you needed gigabit, gigabit switches would be going for £8. Therefore £8 plus £8 is still less than £18.98. I'm smarter than you think.
  • Fightsback
    Fightsback Posts: 2,504 Forumite
    fred246 wrote: »
    By the time you needed gigabit, gigabit switches would be going for £8. Therefore £8 plus £8 is still less than £18.98. I'm smarter than you think.

    Well I suppose you could be smarter than a slug, a tortoise perhaps ?
    Science isn't exact, it's only confidence within limits.
  • fred246 wrote: »
    One is £8.01, the other £18.96 - over twice the price. Unless you are doing something strange, you'd never notice the difference. Therefore as this is a money saving forum, go for the cheaper one.


    Thanks ... that's what I was pondering about.


    I have an Ethernet lead wired to upstairs and I want to 'split' the lead to accommodate 2 gaming computers and a youview box.
    I have a download speed of 38-42 mbps.
    Naturally I want the best result possible, for the best price.


    I guess I plug in the Ethernet lead in 1 port and that will leave me 4 or 7 ports to connect other equipment to... am I right?


    thanks
    sparkie
  • Fightsback
    Fightsback Posts: 2,504 Forumite
    edited 7 December 2015 at 1:05AM
    Thanks ... that's what I was pondering about.


    I have an Ethernet lead wired to upstairs and I want to 'split' the lead to accommodate 2 gaming computers and a youview box.
    I have a download speed of 38-42 mbps.
    Naturally I want the best result possible, for the best price.


    I guess I plug in the Ethernet lead in 1 port and that will leave me 4 or 7 ports to connect other equipment to... am I right?


    thanks
    sparkie

    You may well in the future want to transfer files or have one of the PCs operating as a shared file hub, I'd strongly suggest buying the Gigabit switch. If that's all you are connecting then just buy the cheaper 5 port Gigabit switch unless you need the expansion for some other reason in the future.
    Science isn't exact, it's only confidence within limits.
  • Oblivion
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    I would always pay the bit extra (even if it's not very MSE) for the Gigabit version, be it a switch or PC Ethernet card. You may not need it now, but it's good future proofing for the day you do get a decent broadband speed. The 10/100 spec is very 'yesterday'. ;)
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  • Cycrow
    Cycrow Posts: 2,639 Forumite
    fred246 wrote: »
    One is £8.01, the other £18.96 - over twice the price. Unless you are doing something strange, you'd never notice the difference. Therefore as this is a money saving forum, go for the cheaper one.

    How do you know they wont notice the difference ?

    the OP hasn't said what their usage is. If they mainly want the switch to connect multiple pcs together so they can transfer files between them, then they will most defiantly notice the difference.
  • Fightsback
    Fightsback Posts: 2,504 Forumite
    edited 7 December 2015 at 12:35PM
    Oblivion wrote: »
    I would always pay the bit extra (even if it's not very MSE) for the Gigabit version, be it a switch or PC Ethernet card. You may not need it now, but it's good future proofing for the day you do get a decent broadband speed. The 10/100 spec is very 'yesterday'. ;)


    And for those not so knowledgeable, if you think you get 100mbps out 100mbps ethernet, think again.

    To be on the safe side, a prudent design criterion for 100baseT LAN would be to keep the planned load as follows:
    • Less than 4 MBps for systems that mainly move data.
    • Less then 3 MBps for systems with short interactive transaction messages.
    The reason for designing the interactive LAN load to a lower limit is due to the higher number of frames per MBps. Observing these criteria will set the peak LAN load to a safe 50% of the LAN's capacity.

    Source:

    https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa771466%28v=bts.10%29.aspx

    ;)
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  • fred246
    fred246 Posts: 3,620 Forumite
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    Just look at the Amazon reviews for these products. How many people complain that the cheap one is too slow?
  • Fightsback
    Fightsback Posts: 2,504 Forumite
    fred246 wrote: »
    Just look at the Amazon reviews for these products. How many people complain that the cheap one is too slow?

    Let me ask you a simple* question, which is the better value for money ?

    *Yes the implication is there.
    Science isn't exact, it's only confidence within limits.
  • Cycrow
    Cycrow Posts: 2,639 Forumite
    fred246 wrote: »
    Just look at the Amazon reviews for these products. How many people complain that the cheap one is too slow?

    What difference does that make ?

    if you only ever buy the slow one, then you have nothing to compare it to. So you wont know how much difference the faster one will make because you havn't used it.

    There is a big difference between 10/100 and 10/100/1000. And its very noticeable if you have used both.

    The only time you wont notice the difference is if you only ever use it to connect to internet, then you are limited by the internets speed. Unless of course you are on some faster connection like Virgin
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