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Gig-E Ports with Wireless Routers? Are there any?

by SoCalMike Feb 6, 2006 12:44PM PST

Hi Everyone,

I was hoping to see if anyone knew of any current or near future Wireless Routers that would include Gig-E Ports with the routers. I have only seen Wireless Routers with typically 4 - 10/100 ports.

I have a Gig-E wired home network, and it would be nice to have everything at Gig-E (except of course, for the wireless connection itself).

Thoughts are appreciated.

-Mike in SoCal

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The fix.
by r. proffitt Forum moderator Feb 6, 2006 11:47PM PST

Get the 1G switched hub and uplink that to the router. Since all your internet connections are 10M or below, you can't do much better.

Bob

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Uplinks...
by SoCalMike Feb 7, 2006 2:01AM PST

yes, i could do an uplink, but then i introduce a hop into my network...

so, that is why i was asking...

thanks!

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Negative hop.
by r. proffitt Forum moderator Feb 7, 2006 2:04AM PST

What you may want to do is test this out. I've found the builtin switches to be much slower than externals. Your all in one solution may be slower than the 2 part unit.

Besides that hop does happen internally. If you have your router today, you can get a superior solution with the external 1G Switched Hub.

Bob

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D-Link DGL-4300
by linkit Feb 7, 2006 12:31AM PST
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typo
by linkit Feb 7, 2006 12:34AM PST

"Will get done" should read "will get it done."

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Have you noticed that...
by r. proffitt Forum moderator Feb 7, 2006 12:58AM PST

The switched hub in routers is slower than dedicated switched hubs?

One of the tricks to speed up a network is to never use the hub in the router but an external switched hub. For me, 10 out of 10 times (I've stopped testing this) the external switched hub with an uplink outperformed the all in one solution.

Bob

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What is a switched hub?
by SoCalMike Feb 7, 2006 2:04AM PST

I thought there were hubs and then there were switches??? one was a shared backplane while the other provided point to point connectivity.

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You're right.
by r. proffitt Forum moderator Feb 7, 2006 2:07AM PST

Given the marketspeak I have fallen back to using these 2 terms.

1. "Dumb Hub"

2. "Switched Hub"

If the need arises I use a "Managed Hub" and if clarity is needed I may write "Managed Switched Hub".

You can settle on your own words to match the products but unless we talk about a specific make or model I'll have to call them by some names.

If these are unacceptable, please supply what you want to call each item.

Bob

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bummer
by linkit Feb 7, 2006 2:09AM PST

Didn't know that. Disappointing. Thanks, Bob!

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