Hey everyone. I want to change my network switch because it is throttling my network speeds. Paying for Shaw Fibre+ 1Gbps and getting 100 Mbps on my computer. My computer is in an upstairs bedroom where my internet is on a wired connection on a CAT5E cable plugged into an ethernet wall port.
The house router/modem is in an office upstairs, connected to a different computer than mine with an ethernet cable (from the router) plugged into the wall. This computer which is wired directly from the router/modem and only gets speeds of 280Mbps. All the ethernet ports in the house come into one switch into the basement, which are all CAT5E cables. The switch is rated for 10/100 Mbps. My question(s) are:
Is my router which is plugged into the wall which is then ran two stories down into the network switch an "okay" connection? I mean that as in, from all the videos I've seen, the router connects directly into the switch where in my house the router is plugged into an ethernet wall port, where another CAT 5E cable runs to the basement into the switch. Could the transition of one CAT 5E cable to the next one in the wall cause an issue with speeds?
Is it normal in households for a network switch to be elsewhere in the house from the router?
How is it possible that the wired connection speed directly from the router to the office computer is getting under 300 Mbps down since the router is supposed to be pushing near 1Gbps?
Lastly, obviously my switch is throttling speeds to every other Ethernet port in the house. Is switching the old switch with a new one (d-link 8-port gigabit desktop switch (dgs-108)) as easy as taking all the ethernet cables out of the old one and plugging it into the new one? (And obviously plugging the new switch into the wall for power)
Thank you in advance for your help, and please ask away if you have questions about anything in my network that can help you answer my questions!
The house router/modem is in an office upstairs, connected to a different computer than mine with an ethernet cable (from the router) plugged into the wall. This computer which is wired directly from the router/modem and only gets speeds of 280Mbps. All the ethernet ports in the house come into one switch into the basement, which are all CAT5E cables. The switch is rated for 10/100 Mbps. My question(s) are:
Is my router which is plugged into the wall which is then ran two stories down into the network switch an "okay" connection? I mean that as in, from all the videos I've seen, the router connects directly into the switch where in my house the router is plugged into an ethernet wall port, where another CAT 5E cable runs to the basement into the switch. Could the transition of one CAT 5E cable to the next one in the wall cause an issue with speeds?
Is it normal in households for a network switch to be elsewhere in the house from the router?
How is it possible that the wired connection speed directly from the router to the office computer is getting under 300 Mbps down since the router is supposed to be pushing near 1Gbps?
Lastly, obviously my switch is throttling speeds to every other Ethernet port in the house. Is switching the old switch with a new one (d-link 8-port gigabit desktop switch (dgs-108)) as easy as taking all the ethernet cables out of the old one and plugging it into the new one? (And obviously plugging the new switch into the wall for power)
Thank you in advance for your help, and please ask away if you have questions about anything in my network that can help you answer my questions!