- Aug 25, 2014
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We're a small company, and we currently have a single 48 port XTREME switch on the lowest floor that most of our people use, but the office is 3 floors up and there's 12 of us. I think they must've asked an electrician to run an Ethernet wire (yes, one) up the 3 floors to us and the electrician fortunately convinced them to run 3 instead.
So we're 3 floors above the XTREME switch, with 3 cat5e wires for 12 people. 2 people are direct wired and happy as can be connecting to the server and running reports, the remaining 10 of us are connected with a 5GHz wireless router along with all devices (guest wifi, iPads, phones, laptops, you name it). It takes us 40+ minutes to run some reports while those wired people can do the same in under 8 minutes.
If I brought our spare XTREME Switch up here can I create two VLANs and have one of our 3 wires up here connect to the left half, and the other wire connect to the right half, and then plug in 6 people on the left and 6 people on the right and then we'll be 6 people sharing a 1000Mbps connection on the left, 6 people sharing a different 1000Mbps connection on the right, and the wireless on its own 1000Mbps?
Why I'm asking is at a different company I tried connecting 2 wires into a Cisco switch once from another switch thinking I'd double the speed and what it did was report a loopback and disabled one of the lines so I was only at a single wire 1000Mbps instead of the 2000Mbps I was thinking. I'm wondering if VLANs is a way around that on the same switch. Thanks!
So we're 3 floors above the XTREME switch, with 3 cat5e wires for 12 people. 2 people are direct wired and happy as can be connecting to the server and running reports, the remaining 10 of us are connected with a 5GHz wireless router along with all devices (guest wifi, iPads, phones, laptops, you name it). It takes us 40+ minutes to run some reports while those wired people can do the same in under 8 minutes.
If I brought our spare XTREME Switch up here can I create two VLANs and have one of our 3 wires up here connect to the left half, and the other wire connect to the right half, and then plug in 6 people on the left and 6 people on the right and then we'll be 6 people sharing a 1000Mbps connection on the left, 6 people sharing a different 1000Mbps connection on the right, and the wireless on its own 1000Mbps?
Why I'm asking is at a different company I tried connecting 2 wires into a Cisco switch once from another switch thinking I'd double the speed and what it did was report a loopback and disabled one of the lines so I was only at a single wire 1000Mbps instead of the 2000Mbps I was thinking. I'm wondering if VLANs is a way around that on the same switch. Thanks!
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