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Is this a solid layout...Can it be improved?

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This is my network that connects by residence and my office. The office is suppled my the Nighthawk router via 1 - Cat5e with a length of 245'. Currently, I am using 3 5 port switches daisy chained in the second building but I am replacing those with the 24 port switch tomorrow. My question is...will multiple Cat5e cables run between the nighthawk router and netgear switch improve network performance between Bldg 1 -2?

I have the ability to move the modem to the second building and back feed the house... but I am concerned with game performance.

I also stream 1080p from the Synology NAS to both buildings.

Please let me know any other details I need to provide.

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Thanks, Steve
 
Beautiful layout by the way. I don't think you're going to see much of an improvement if any connecting a second Ethernet cable to the router. What you'd really want to do is go for Link Aggregation which internally bonds X Amount of switch ports to X Amount of Ports on the Router. No if this was a Manageable Switch along with a real Router you could do some pretty nifty stuff.

If all devices are 1GbE you might not need the extra bandwidth anyways. Have you ran tests on your network to see if there are any significant bottlenecks? Depending on what you're doing I could see some areas where it might come into play, especially when you throw on a 1080P stream into the mix. Even then 100MbE usually can handle a raw stream just fine.

If you spent extra for a Managed Switch and wanted to upgrade from the Nighthawk to something more, shall I say, professional? You could further split the traffic by VLAN's, maximizing existing links, trunk the switch to the Router and even bond multiple links which would effectively double the link from Building 1 to Building 2 theoretically. The good thing is it looks like you have a lot of traffic locked in at the Layer 2 level which leaves the Layer 3 device connecting the buildings relatively unmolested unless you're streaming from the NAS > B1 or doing backups from B1 > B2, or exchanging large files across each building constantly.

tl;dr I think it looks great as it is. In fact makes my network look like a cluster f**k. lol
 
My only recommendations would be to vlan your security system and ditch the long copper run and replace it with a single GB fiber run.

Also ditch the Netgear crap. HP or Dell have decent priced options that don't suck.
 
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