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FS116 running at 1/2 router (Cisco EA4500) speed
Good morning all..I'm walt in Baton Rouge... and am hoping you can shed some light...I bought an FS116 to add ports to router about 4 months ago. just got a chance to take a close look at network pe...
Hi waltinbatonroug,
Welcome to the community! :)
I believe the Surfboard SB6121, the Cisco EA4500 router and the NIC (network interface card) of your PC supports 1Gbps of ethernet connection that is why you get a download speed of 118Mbps when you connect your PC directly to either the Surfboard SB6121 or the Cisco EA4500 router using a Cat5e cable.
The FS116 unmanaged switch is only capable of 10/100 Mbps of ethernet connection. If you connect the PC to the FS116 switch, the download speed will decrease because the ethernet connection will downgrade from 1Gbps (from the router) to 10/100Mbps (FS116).
It would be best that you replace the FS116 switch with an unmanaged switch that is capable of 1Gbps like the GS105v5 or GS108v4 or GS116v2 unmanaged switches. In this way, you will have a Gigabit LAN connection. For more information about the GS105v5 / GS108v4 and GS116v2 unmanaged switches respectively, click on the links below:
Regards,
DaneA
NETGEAR Community Team
Hi waltinbatonroug,
Welcome to the community! :)
I believe the Surfboard SB6121, the Cisco EA4500 router and the NIC (network interface card) of your PC supports 1Gbps of ethernet connection that is why you get a download speed of 118Mbps when you connect your PC directly to either the Surfboard SB6121 or the Cisco EA4500 router using a Cat5e cable.
The FS116 unmanaged switch is only capable of 10/100 Mbps of ethernet connection. If you connect the PC to the FS116 switch, the download speed will decrease because the ethernet connection will downgrade from 1Gbps (from the router) to 10/100Mbps (FS116).
It would be best that you replace the FS116 switch with an unmanaged switch that is capable of 1Gbps like the GS105v5 or GS108v4 or GS116v2 unmanaged switches. In this way, you will have a Gigabit LAN connection. For more information about the GS105v5 / GS108v4 and GS116v2 unmanaged switches respectively, click on the links below:
Regards,
DaneA
NETGEAR Community Team
Good morning Dane, and thanks very much for your reply..I continued reading and researching and thought i got the idea, so i ordered and installed the GS116 and zap! I do get the full 118 MBps back to our workstation through the new switch..
but If I can ask, ...why, if the 118 Mbps was delivered to the FS116 10/100 auto sensing switch wouldn't each switch port be able to pass at least the 100Mbps? Am I confusing bits and bytes. And why'd the 118Mbps drop to 1/2 speed? ..thanks again
thanks again
waltinbatonrouge
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