2nd Ethernet Port

I didn't even think about teaming. It brings me back to my network admin days with port trunks between switches.

Now, I am looking at the GS108T. I think it's quite affordable at under $100 considering its features. I assume that only the switch the NAS is attached to needs to support teaming? I am still running my network setup through my mind to think about how to do this. I'm quite interested in everyone's ideas.

Here's the deal.

I have three locations in the house that have wired access - Office, Basement, Living Room.

As far as wired LAN goes, the basement is where my FiOS ONT AND Router are. The Office (2nd floor) and Living Room (1st floor) both have wired runs to this location. These runs were NOT easy to do. The hardest was basement to attic, back down to the office. To further complicate things, the basement is all finished with sheetrock. Ugh. The Office has a Netgear WNDR4500 router, which is connected to the FiOS Router LAN-LAN as an AP. The FiOS Router is the DHCP and gateway, it's WiFi radio is OFF.

Do you think I will get better LAN performance if I do not use the switches built into thee Netgear and FiOS router, and add a GS108T to both the Office and the Basement? Then, the FiOS router would attach to the GS108T there and the WNDR4500 would attach to another GS108T.

I do a lot of large file transfers so I'm thinking teaming may indeed help.

Thanks for the input.