(advanced) Question about making fast lan connection between PC and LAN-Hard drive

[Guest bokrok]

Someone wants to get a new drive that is external and only has a lan

connection (1 gig).

 

The computer does have a 1 gig ethernet on the motherboard...

 

however the ROUTER that will be connecting the 2 is only 100MB ...

 

So what would happen is that the connection speed would drop to 100mb of

course since that's the router speed.

 

So I thought of getting a new 1 GIG SWITCH and connect everything as you can

see in this diagram:

 

http://img410.imageshack.us/img410/2135/graphic1gm3.jpg

 

I suspect that the speed connection between the router and switch would be

100mb

and the connection between the PC and HARD DRIVE would be 1 Gig...

 

I would want to have the speed between the Drive and PC to be 1 Gig even

though the router is 100 MB.

 

can someone tell me if my thoughts are correct?

 

 

thank you!

[Guest John McGaw]

Re: (advanced) Question about making fast lan connection betweenPC and LAN-Hard drive

 

Re: (advanced) Question about making fast lan connection betweenPC and LAN-Hard drive

 

bokrok wrote:

> Someone wants to get a new drive that is external and only has a lan

> connection (1 gig).

>

> The computer does have a 1 gig ethernet on the motherboard...

>

> however the ROUTER that will be connecting the 2 is only 100MB ...

>

> So what would happen is that the connection speed would drop to 100mb of

> course since that's the router speed.

>

> So I thought of getting a new 1 GIG SWITCH and connect everything as you

> can

> see in this diagram:

>

> http://img410.imageshack.us/img410/2135/graphic1gm3.jpg

>

> I suspect that the speed connection between the router and switch would be

> 100mb

> and the connection between the PC and HARD DRIVE would be 1 Gig...

>

> I would want to have the speed between the Drive and PC to be 1 Gig even

> though the router is 100 MB.

>

> can someone tell me if my thoughts are correct?

>

>

> thank you!

>

>

 

 

That is how it should work. In fact, you should be able to disconnect the

router and smash it to bits and have no effect on the speed of the local

networking through the switch. Of course, for high speed operation, this

1gb network connection will never be that fast and eSATA, Firewire, or USB

will be ever so much quicker. But if you have patience...

 

John McGaw

http://johnmcgaw.com

[Guest Jack \(MVP-Networking\).]

Re: (advanced) Question about making fast lan connection between PC and LAN-Hard drive

 

Re: (advanced) Question about making fast lan connection between PC and LAN-Hard drive

 

Hi

In case you need help, or any other thing involved the storage device.

The device that you have is Not called External Hard Drive, it is a NAS =

Network Accessed Storage.

In addition do not get upset when you discover that the basic speed between

the Computer and the NAS would be about 20-30MB/sec. (B=Byte)

These Devices are called Giga but the real network Bandwidth that they yield

is much lower than 1000Mb/sec. (b=bit, 8bits=1Byte).

Jack (MS, MVP-Networking)

 

"bokrok" <nk@yan.fr> wrote in message

news:48e60aa8$1@newsgate.x-privat.org...

> Someone wants to get a new drive that is external and only has a lan

> connection (1 gig).

>

> The computer does have a 1 gig ethernet on the motherboard...

>

> however the ROUTER that will be connecting the 2 is only 100MB ...

>

> So what would happen is that the connection speed would drop to 100mb of

> course since that's the router speed.

>

> So I thought of getting a new 1 GIG SWITCH and connect everything as you

> can

> see in this diagram:

>

> http://img410.imageshack.us/img410/2135/graphic1gm3.jpg

>

> I suspect that the speed connection between the router and switch would be

> 100mb

> and the connection between the PC and HARD DRIVE would be 1 Gig...

>

> I would want to have the speed between the Drive and PC to be 1 Gig even

> though the router is 100 MB.

>

> can someone tell me if my thoughts are correct?

>

>

> thank you!

>

>