Switch or router? ReadyNas duo

Buy Gbit switch which is capable of Jumbo frames and you have it covered ;)

I personally have Netgear GS608v3

Your setup should be connected all with cables though to get maxximum out of it.

Setup itself is pretty straightforward:

Router/Modem -> Switch -> NAS
                   |
                    ----> Laptop

Then enable Jumbo frames on your NAS and Laptop, after that sit back and enjoy... :)

Ma2T wrote:
I'm thinking of this switch. http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B000 ... ag=hl08-21

I wouldnt recommend that one, as some users have had problems in this forum with that combo and also TP-Link is "infamous" for not supporting Jumbo Frames above 4k...

Excellent, many thanks for the quick reply.

I know my express card can do Jumbo frames, best check that the switch can, then I'm good to go guess! Cheers

OH, look like it support jumbo frames upto 4054 bytes. Good enough?

Just saw your update, great reply. Thanks again!

Okay... I'll look around for another switch! Cheers!

I dont have a Duo anymore to check it out, but it was probably capable of 8k
(You can check it in frontview actually, by ticking that box and it will show exact MTU which is set after reboot)

Still even if youre laptop isnt capable of larger than 4k frames, I would still buy switch which could do 9K frames, as price difference is neglible...
And who knows, when you are gonna buy a new laptop ;)

As a sidenote, you will probably get a minor performance hit on internet speeds, as there will be 100Mbit/s, 1,5K frame bottleneck between Router and the rest of devices.
So switch has to do a lot of buffering, shouldnt be a big problem though as ADSL isnt anyway near fast enough and if switch is decent you wont notice it at all ;)

Thanks again for the wealth on information!

I'm tempted by the http://www.ebuyer.com/52760-netgear-pro ... itch-gs105 due to it's small size.

But if not, I'll just go with what you use!

Cheers

Ma2T wrote:
But if not, I'll just go with what you use!

Actually 8-port GS608 has a smaller brother GS605, which is 5-port ;)

Ma2T wrote:
I'm tempted by the http://www.ebuyer.com/52760-netgear-pro ... itch-gs105 due to it's small size.

Will do also probably (never used it), but specs look good, also metal housing is better for heat dissipation... ;)

Store-and-forward 128 KB on-chip packet buffering Jumbo frame: up to 9,720 bytes

If you dont care about looks, you could buy that one, also it supports larger frames than GS60x ...

haha, silly me, I assumed the lower number was an older model lol.

Looks like we have a winner! Thanks again Etz

Also you could always, look here: http://kb.netgear.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/20686/
If you dont exactly know, take it or leave it.