Best setup for throughput between two devices


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I have a Netgear WNR3500L router with Tomato installed. It has 4 Gb ports. I also have the Netgear ProSafe Plus JGS524E 24 port Gb switch.

I want to know what is the optimal configuration for throughput between the two devices? The majority of my devices will be on the switch but a few will be on the router and the router / switch will be connected via a CAT6 cable.

The router handles DHCP, DNS, WINS and access to the internet.

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To avoid internal file transfer clogging up your internet connection I'd put as much as possible on the switch. Imagine one PC on the router, and another on the switch. An internal filetransfer could use up most of that one gigabit connection between your router and switch. If two computers start transferring internally at the same time with a computer on the router you'll have saturated your 1Gbps line between the router and the switch and your internet connection quality on all other devices on the switch will suffer. If you really need the three extra ports, put things that will not/hardly do internal transfers on it.

The wireless connections should be fine, you're never getting anywhere near 1Gb over WiFi in any possible occasion.

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That's what I was considering to do; just let the router device handle just that and put everything on the switch. I will only be using ~ 18 ports.

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That's what I was considering to do; just let the router device handle just that and put everything on the switch. I will only be using ~ 18 ports.

Would be the best :)

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I wonder if there's a way with either Tomato or with this switch if I can configure one port on the swith to router for Tx only and another port on the router to switch for Rx only?

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Are you looking to bind the ports, ie 2GB? Link aggregation?

If you have a smart or managed switch you should be able to do it on that end, not sure if you can do that on tomato or dd-wrt.

But to be honest there would be no point to this really. Do you have a internet connection on this router over 1GB? I find that pretty unlikely! Even if you did I doubt the device could actually route traffic anywhere near 1GB, net alone 2GB.

The advice above was correct. Keep your heavy lan traffic boxes on the switch. And then only traffic to the internet would use the uplink to the router. A gig connection should be way over the top for your actual internet connection.

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