Fastes gigabit switch

[Mehlsack]

Hello guys

I am going to move to a new flat and want to equip it with lan in every room.
This is to access my NAS. I would like to store my BlueRay collection on them and make them streamable via this lan.

In addition to that i am just technophil.
Now i do have a problem.

my NAS will be a QNAP 459ProII, i will use cat7 cables, but dont have any clue about a switch (around 16 slots) + router( with wlan) to maximize the transfer speeds/streaming speeds.

i would like to establish a vlan as well to devide between my stream-lan and my "internet,surf,game lan"

Jope you understand what my problem is and might be even able to help me

 

[Emerald]

using CAT7 is a waste of money. CAT6 is more then sufficient, even CAT5e can due 1Gb/s

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833150078

 

[The_Prophecy]

FYI - Cat5e can do Gigabit, but it can be sketchy in terms of connection stability. Cat6 cables cost about the same and are MUCH better suited to handle those speeds without random disconnects or other odd behavior. Cat7 is definitely a waste of money though.

 

[Hawkeye22]

You didn't specify a price range or if you wanted a managed or unmanaged switch. There may be cheaper out there, but this switch works well.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833127326

 

[Mehlsack]

Thanks for you fast answers.

I dint specify a certain price range, because i dont have any clue how much a good switch could cost and i do prefer buying one really good switch then hav it changed every month because it is bad or incapable of some things i might be interested in later

So ich think between 100-250€ should be ok.
Ok, if you say that cat7 is pretty much useless i will stay with cat6.
I dont want to same some hundred bug on cables etc. just to be rip them out of my walls two years later because there is a problem with them.

I do photography as well and sometimes i have to transfer huge files/ or a lot of pictures and ich dont want to have them creepy around 30MB/s or so.

What do you think is a max. transfer speed in a good gigabit lan?

Thanks so far for all your help!

 

[Hawkeye22]

I do photography as well and sometimes i have to transfer huge files/ or a lot of pictures and ich dont want to have them creepy around 30MB/s or so.

What do you think is a max. transfer speed in a good gigabit lan?

Thanks so far for all your help!

This can also be a problem. Your network is only as fast as your slowest device. In this scenario, your hard drive is your limiting factor. If your hard drive can only read/write at around 125Mb/s there is no way for it to saturate a gigabit network or even come close. I don't know what other network traffic you may have on your LAN, but file transfers alone won't be a problem even on lower end gigabit hardware.

 

[Mehlsack]

I think i will use a Raid 10 Setup to further increase speed for the hdds