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Switch or router? ReadyNas duo
Hey guys, I've finally upgraded my laptop with an express card gigabit Ethernet port as I was hardly using my ReadyNas Duo because of the slow 100mbit speed. I have a adsl / router combo, but it...
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 ;)
(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 ;)
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