I have a gs308 standard unmanaged switch but will potentially get a nighthawk gaming switch if it will improve/minimize latency for my 2 son's desktop pc setups.
So I have a 500 up and down fibre connection and there is only 2 ethernet ports on the back of the router to use, which is downstairs in the hallway. My 2 sons are upstairs, regardless of using the nighthawk or generic Netgear unmanaged router, what scenario would give the lower/better total latency result by the end of the journey?
1) one cat cable from router port> upstairs to bedroom 1 into >switch then 2 separate cat cables going from switch>travelling to each PC.
2)1 cat cable from router> going directly to >PC in bedroom 1 and a second cat cable directly from second router port> upstairs into a >switch then a cat cable from the switch> into the second PC in bedroom 2
Either way I wanted a switch upstairs either way for additional future options.
Do the nighthawk switches (s8000 for example) aside from the QoS side of things generally allow packets etc to travel faster/more efficient than the generic Netgear gs308 just from a perspective of the nighthawk running without any managed settings on, as a makeshift unmanaged switch? Or spec wise is the nuts and bolts of it the same as the generic ones.
