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Every switch uses shared throughput and load balancing. This is no different from a Ethernet gigabit switch unless your switch has a > gigabit Up-link. Think ab
by goggles99 14y ago
Every switch uses shared throughput and load balancing. This is no different from a Ethernet gigabit switch unless your switch has a > gigabit Up-link. Think about it - how are 2 clients hard wired to a gigabit Ethernet switch going to exceed 500 megabits of downstream simultaneously.
The Up-link to the switch is the limiting factor.
- bradleyland 14y agoYour comments only apply to traffic on a separate layer-2 broadcast domain (uplink). Who has a gigabit uplink anyway? This statement is absolutely false for LAN traffic: "This is no different from a Ethernet gigabit switch". Even inexpensive gigabit switches are non-blocking these days. This means that they have enough bandwidth for all devices on the LAN to talk to each other at full throughput. This is where the real value of gigabit ethernet comes in. If you need to transfer large files over your LAN, a wired gigabit switch is going to far outperform gigabit wireless.