Need some help with configuring my home network. Currently I have my desktop and a Gigabit NAS wired to a WRT610Nv1 and a HTPC + PS3 hooked up to an old WGT624 I'm using as a switch in the living room. Got a couple of other PCs connected via wireless. I'm trying to update the whole shebang to Gigabit and preferably Jumbo Frame support as well as adding in an expansion.
Currently going through the WRT610N gets me transfers speeds of ~200 Mbps while is comparable to what SmallNetBuilder.com got when they reviewed it, its far from Gigabit speeds. The WRT610N doesn't officially support Jumbo Frames (DD-WRT does but not entirely stable) either. Newegg has a buy 2 get 1 free deal on Netgear GS-105E Gigabit/Jumbo Frame switches which according to SmallNetBuilder.com, should be good for ~700 Mbps. So is it possible to get Jumbo Frame support by bypassing it with a switch? If it is, I'm thinking I can kill 2 birds with one stone, by bypassing the slow router with a fast switch and gain Jumbo Frames to boot.
A centralized switch would be great, but I can't run cables through the walls, I don't want to have cables strewn all over the floor. So one of the switches are gonna be right next to the Modem/Router, while the other two are gonna be in other parts of the house.
Oh and regarding QoS. My internet connection is pretty crappy (3MBps down/0.8MBps up on a good day) and my HTPC is often used to stream video off the internet while I'm trying to get a quick game of CS:S, CoD, whatever. When both are going at the same time, the HTPC streams just fine while I'm getting horrendous pings and lag spikes. Can QoS be used to limit my HTPC to say 1/3rd of my internet connection rather than just limiting it's LAN bandwidth? More specifically is possible with my network scheme from above using the QoS implementation in the Netgear GS-105E?
Currently going through the WRT610N gets me transfers speeds of ~200 Mbps while is comparable to what SmallNetBuilder.com got when they reviewed it, its far from Gigabit speeds. The WRT610N doesn't officially support Jumbo Frames (DD-WRT does but not entirely stable) either. Newegg has a buy 2 get 1 free deal on Netgear GS-105E Gigabit/Jumbo Frame switches which according to SmallNetBuilder.com, should be good for ~700 Mbps. So is it possible to get Jumbo Frame support by bypassing it with a switch? If it is, I'm thinking I can kill 2 birds with one stone, by bypassing the slow router with a fast switch and gain Jumbo Frames to boot.
A centralized switch would be great, but I can't run cables through the walls, I don't want to have cables strewn all over the floor. So one of the switches are gonna be right next to the Modem/Router, while the other two are gonna be in other parts of the house.
Oh and regarding QoS. My internet connection is pretty crappy (3MBps down/0.8MBps up on a good day) and my HTPC is often used to stream video off the internet while I'm trying to get a quick game of CS:S, CoD, whatever. When both are going at the same time, the HTPC streams just fine while I'm getting horrendous pings and lag spikes. Can QoS be used to limit my HTPC to say 1/3rd of my internet connection rather than just limiting it's LAN bandwidth? More specifically is possible with my network scheme from above using the QoS implementation in the Netgear GS-105E?
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