Upgrade router and splitter for faster lan suggestions

[Marios_1]

Hello,

Im currently making a lan with a server (fairly old lga 771 dual socket) and 3 pc's and im currently using a router provided from the internet company and a splitter fairly cheap. My lan speed is super low as expected and i want to upgrade. Should i get a router with many ports(i need over 8 ports including printers) or i should get a splitter or both? Thanks for your help in advance.

 

[basroil]

By splitter I hope you mean unmanaged switch. Basically anything with gig-E should be within 10% of the performance and all should be good enough for most. Just connect less used computers (and your printer) to the switch, and server and most used computers to the router. Usually routers will have 4 ports, and with a 5port unmanaged switch you should be able to manage all your devices.

 

[Marios_1]

All must be connected and the pc's between them need speed. Ok the printers shouldnt need speed. But dont i need a better switch to improve the networks speed?

 

[USAFRet]

All must be connected and the pc's between them need speed. Ok the printers shouldnt need speed. But dont i need a better switch to improve the networks speed?

This depends.
What switch do you have now? Make/model, please.

 

[basroil]

All must be connected and the pc's between them need speed. Ok the printers shouldnt need speed. But dont i need a better switch to improve the networks speed?

If you need that much speed, you're either a) doing something horribly wrong --or-- b) overestimating your needs.

Your internet speeds will be met with any gig-E router on all your machines, it's a matter of seeing how fast of file transfers you really need that's the issue. Unless you need all machines to get 50MB/S at the same time, a cheap netgear 5 port gig-e switch will be fine. If you do need that much speed, you're going to need a better server!

 

[Marios_1]

Thats what i am talking about. 30-50 mb/s is the ideal transfer speed. I am using a zte zxhn h108ns router and a d link go sw 8g splitter (or unmanaged switch)

 

[USAFRet]

Thats what i am talking about. 30-50 mb/s is the ideal transfer speed. I am using a zte zxhn h108ns router and a d link go sw 8g splitter (or unmanaged switch)

That's an 8 port 10/100/1000 switch.
You're not going to get any faster at a consumer level of device.

Your router, however, is a "Fast Ethernet" connection. 10/100
http://enterprise.zteusa.com/en/products/network_lnfrastructure/cpe/broadband/201312/t20131209_414436.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_Ethernet

So...things connected to the router will be 'slower' than things connected directly to the switch.

 

[Marios_1]

So i need to connect my pc's to the switch an my printers to the router?

 

[USAFRet]

So i need to connect my pc's to the switch an my printers to the router?

Sort of.
Ideally, you get a better router. With 10/100/1000 ethernet ports on the back.

 

[Marios_1]

Ok so i found another network bottleneck. I should do a raid 5 with 4 hdds on server and then retry. Thanks for your help guys! You are awesome

 

[USAFRet]

Ok so i found another network bottleneck. I should do a raid 5 with 4 hdds on server and then retry. Thanks for your help guys! You are awesome

The drives on the server, RAID or not, have nothing to do with a network bottleneck.

 

[Marios_1]

So right now i should have the best lan speeds.

 

[USAFRet]

So right now i should have the best lan speeds.

Well...you still have that 10/100 router.

 

[Marios_1]

So, upgrading router to 10/100/1000 is coming wih an 8port.

 

[USAFRet]

So, upgrading router to 10/100/1000 is coming wih an 8port.

Don't need an 8 port router. (and that would be hard to find)

modem->router->switch->devices.

with a 10/100/1000 router, devices can be on the switch or the router.

 

[Marios_1]

Thanks again. You sir are awesome!

 

[basroil]

modem->router->switch->devices.

with a 10/100/1000 router, devices can be on the switch or the router.

Yup, the exact setup I have in one lab, but with two switches. If your "server" has a server OS and multiple ethernet ports that support teaming, you could actually get slightly higher performance for multiple clients by using multiple connections, even connections at different layers (if router is layer 1, switch would be layer 2,etc) if your equipment supports it. With that you can be drive limited for as many devices as there are connections.

 

[Marios_1]

i am running windows server 2003 in my server. i only have 2 ethernet ports. i know there is a pci card with 4 ethernet ports but i dont think its worth the extra cost. ill try to reconfigure my lan. currently its router->splitter -> all pcs connected to splitter.