gigabit network setup

[Boon72]

just ordered a netgear 605 gigabit switch for home to add to a netgear (sky) router so my internal lan will be faster, is there anythin i need to do out of the box to make this easy? or will it just work

[pauldarkside]

Same setup here - simply plug 'n' play

[EnglishLion]

Should be plug and play. I'm assuming that your internal network includes PCs with gigabit cards! If not they can always be added with an addon NIC.

[MarcLister]

Should just work. Plug everything in and enjoy. Like EnglishLion says you will need gigabit cards for your PCs if they haven't already got onboard gigabit.

[Boon72]

cheers all for the replies.

turns out it was just a case of adding it, although the nas drive i read was 10/100/1000 turned out to be 10/100 lol

i had to turn on a couple of things on the pc lan too (jumbo packets - to 4088 & manually set speed to 1000 full rather than auto)

at least the 360 & ps3 should be faster now when not on wireless , will add a card to the server at a later date.

[EnglishLion]

I've been looking for a wireless n router with gigabit on the wired ports but they're just so expensive right now, I keep watching and hoping the prices will drop.

Is the gigabit LAN an outstanding improvement - I mean do you really notice the speed difference?

[Guy]

For day to day use 100mb I find fine, when im transfering files over or streaming content between pc's servers/consoles etc then 1gb is clearly the way to go.

[peterb]

Gigabit will make no difference to your internet connection speeds, but if you are running a file server(or even file shareing on a peer to peer network), and saving/retrieving large files, it will be noticeable on your local LAN.

[b0redom]

(or even file shareing on a peer to peer network)

Without using your Internet connection....

[peterb]

Without using your Internet connection....

True! Peer to peer local networking! (It was late!)

[haku]

cheers all for the replies.

turns out it was just a case of adding it, although the nas drive i read was 10/100/1000 turned out to be 10/100 lol

i had to turn on a couple of things on the pc lan too (jumbo packets - to 4088 & manually set speed to 1000 full rather than auto)

at least the 360 & ps3 should be faster now when not on wireless , will add a card to the server at a later date.

its usually good practice to force both sides of the connection to full/half duplex (from your comments above I assumed that you changed things just on your PC NIC). In your case it should be fine because 1gb links don't support half duplex and will fall back to full duplex by default even if you didn't force the switch to do 1gb full duplex mode. If it was a 100meg link then you'd have your connection with mismatched duplex because the switch link partner will fallback to half duplex if it is on autonegotiate. You will find a lot of packet loss due to collision on your network. It will save you a lot of grief later if you remember to force both sides or leave autoneg on both sides.

BTW out of curiosity why did you pick jumbo frame size to be 4088 instead of the available 9014 and 16128.

Cheers.