Peripheral Networking's Bottleneck

[wongdegle]

I'm going to build a network consist of
LAN Card TP Link TG-3468 Gigabit PCI Express
Some Switch/Hub DGS 1024D and DGS 1016D
and connect them with Lan cable Belden Cat5 or Cat6(Dunno which)

Will those peripheral works well with each other?Will there be any bottle neck to local networking(share files, etc)?

 

[kanewolf]

Unless you have really OLD PCs, there is not usually a need to add a NIC card. The motherboard ethernet port is sufficient.

You have a 24 port and a 16 port switch listed. How many total devices are you trying to support?

 

[wongdegle]

Unless you have really OLD PCs, there is not usually a need to add a NIC card. The motherboard ethernet port is sufficient.

You have a 24 port and a 16 port switch listed. How many total devices are you trying to support?

I got MSI H81 ME-33. But I'm afraid about electrical shorting through LAN cable here so, I thought I'll get LAN card for motherboard's 'insurance' purpose(CMIIW)

I'm building 10 PC each floor(total 40 PCs, 4 floor). Each PC will be connected to 16 switch(1 floor 1 switch), and each switch connecting to the 24 port at server room.

 

[nigelivey]

Not sure what you gain from an add in NIC to avoid "electrical shorting"?? The set up you describe should work fine, be mindful of bottlenecks on uplinks etc.

 

[kanewolf]

OK, your project changed significantly from your initial post. If this is for an infrastructure for a building, then you should use managed switches rather than unmanaged. Is this an apartment type installation, or an office installation? If this is an office environment, does it need POE to support IP phones? If it is an apartment installation, then it should have isolation between tenants. Both of those use cases should use VLANs. Another reason for managed switches.

 

[wongdegle]

Not sure what you gain from an add in NIC to avoid "electrical shorting"?? The set up you describe should work fine, be mindful of bottlenecks on uplinks etc.

Well, so we have no reason to put the LAN Card?That's good news, because my IT team told me to put it.

OK, your project changed significantly from your initial post. If this is for an infrastructure for a building, then you should use managed switches rather than unmanaged. Is this an apartment type installation, or an office installation? If this is an office environment, does it need POE to support IP phones? If it is an apartment installation, then it should have isolation between tenants. Both of those use cases should use VLANs. Another reason for managed switches.

This is also what i want to know, because I build PCs for Karaoke Business. Is it a must to use managed Switches?Basically what I want is that my client PC can get fastest data transfer speed from Server PC. I though Gigabits are better than fast ethernet.

 

[kanewolf]

For a business setting, the biggest thing is to protect your equipment from viruses, crypto lockers, bot-nets, etc. You need some kind of comprehensive security solution for all your devices that will disable the USB ports, except for devices you specifically authorize. It will prevent any kind of escape from YOUR application. You might even want to run your application as a VM on each host. If that gets trashed, it takes only seconds to recover.

Karaoke shouldn't require any huge bandwidth. Even if you are using a central server to record singers that isn't that huge amount of bandwidth. You would want to compress the audio on the end point PCs.

I recommend managed switches because you can disable unused network ports, gather statistics about network loading, and many more things that dumb switches just can't do. Quality 10/100 switches for your PCs with gigabit uplink should be all you need.

 

[wongdegle]

For a business setting, the biggest thing is to protect your equipment from viruses, crypto lockers, bot-nets, etc. You need some kind of comprehensive security solution for all your devices that will disable the USB ports, except for devices you specifically authorize. It will prevent any kind of escape from YOUR application. You might even want to run your application as a VM on each host. If that gets trashed, it takes only seconds to recover.

Karaoke shouldn't require any huge bandwidth. Even if you are using a central server to record singers that isn't that huge amount of bandwidth. You would want to compress the audio on the end point PCs.

I recommend managed switches because you can disable unused network ports, gather statistics about network loading, and many more things that dumb switches just can't do. Quality 10/100 switches for your PCs with gigabit uplink should be all you need.

Can I just use managed Switch in Server Room?Or I have to replace every unmanaged switches to managed one?

Updated :
Okay, this is going to be off topic. I'll search for it later. So how do you think about my PC Spec?Should I remove the not-necessary LAN Card?Consider I'm using relatively new motherboard(MSI-H81-ME33).