On 05/04/2012 04:19 PM, Marc Paré wrote:
My question is, if we are wired for 1000 Mbit/s should I be purchasing router and switches that work at this speed. I have quite frankly never really worried about this as our speed was quite decent.
What you need to do is compare the speed of your router/switches to the speed your ISP gives you. Typically, the ISP speed is the bottleneck. The faster router/switches can only exceed the ISP's bandwidth when you're going from machine to machine in your house, which may be worth it if you do a lot of large file transfers.
And, of course, even if you upgrade the router/switches, any particular system with a slower NIC won't see the benefit unless it upgrades as well.
