Getting Internet Connecting In My Garden Office-Wired

ReeceF · May 18, 2014

Hey, So as you can see by the title, I would want to have a internet connecting in my Garden Office, but i also want it wired. I have been looking at Switches to go inside my office but i am not sure which one would be the most suitable for the job, I repair lots of PC's, and i have 3 PC's of my own so i would need a switch with around 24 ports in, If anybody knows of any good switches or even if there is a better idea please let me know
Thanks
Reece F

13thmonkey · May 18, 2014

Unless you are in a proper industrial environment they'll all be about the same, consider 2x8 port if all 24 ports don't need to be used in the same place. get GBe, not just 10/100, the difference is immense, throwing files around at >60MB/s is so much nicer than 6MB/s.

ReeceF · May 18, 2014

13thmonkey :

Hey thanks for a quick reply mate, So what switch would you recommend?
Thanks for your help so far

Reece. F

bill001g · May 18, 2014

You will not find a signification difference between unmanaged switches. All small unmanged switches cost about the same...a couple dollars different. The vast majority say they can run non-blocking or wirespeed since they use the same chipset internal. They normally quote the backplane speeds as 2 times the number of ports gig. So a 16 port switch would have a speed of 32g if it was non blocking. There are a small number that don't run that way and these tend to not say anything about throughputs. Even then it would likely not matter. Non blocking just allows all ports to run at maximum input and maximum output all at the same time...which never happens in real life.

Pretty much get the number of ports you need. As pointed out multiple smaller switches will cost less than 24 port ones. This is because of the backplane speed required. When you have 24 ports you need 48g of capacity since any port can talk to any port at 1g in and out at any instance. When you have say 2 12 port switches all the ports in each switch can talk to each other at 1g simultaneously but they must share a 1g cable between the switches so the total throughput is not as high and therefore less expensive.

That said you can get 24 port linksys switches that even have some minor managed features like vlan support for less than $200 so it depends on your budget.

ReeceF · May 18, 2014

bill001g :

You will not find a signification difference between unmanaged switches. All small unmanged switches cost about the same...a couple dollars different. The vast majority say they can run non-blocking or wirespeed since they use the same chipset internal. They normally quote the backplane speeds as 2 times the number of ports gig. So a 16 port switch would have a speed of 32g if it was non blocking. There are a small number that don't run that way and these tend to not say anything about throughputs. Even then it would likely not matter. Non blocking just allows all ports to run at maximum input and maximum output all at the same time...which never happens in real life.

Pretty much get the number of ports you need. As pointed out multiple smaller switches will cost less than 24 port ones. This is because of the backplane speed required. When you have 24 ports you need 48g of capacity since any port can talk to any port at 1g in and out at any instance. When you have say 2 12 port switches all the ports in each switch can talk to each other at 1g simultaneously but they must share a 1g cable between the switches so the total throughput is not as high and therefore less expensive.

That said you can get 24 port linksys switches that even have some minor managed features like vlan support for less than $200 so it depends on your budget.

hey man thanks for that, I was looking at this switch- http://www.amazon.co.uk/TP-Link-TL-SF1024D-24-Port-100Mbps-Desktop/dp/B004BU8KBQ/ref=sr_1_4?s=computers&ie=UTF8&qid=1400344888&sr=1-4&keywords=Switch
Would this switch be good for me.
Thanks again for your help, Much appreciated
Reece F

bill001g · May 18, 2014

That switch is is only 10/100. If you feel you do not need gig ports then it will be fine. The version that runs gig from tplink is about double that.

13thmonkey · May 19, 2014

definitely go gigabit, it's really worth it.

ReeceF · May 20, 2014

So would i need a Cross Over Cable to run from the Router to the Switch?

bill001g · May 20, 2014

Generally it does not matter anymore even 10/100 equipment will auto sense the cable. Generally you would use a straight cable between a router and a switch.....except consumer routers actually have small switches for their lan interface which means you need a cross cable. This does not apply since on gig it uses all 4 pair to transmit and receive on both ends simultaneously

Just buy a switch that support MDI/MDIX and you can use straight cables all the time.

13thmonkey · May 20, 2014

generally straight cables all of the time, except for PC to PC.

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