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24 Port 10/100/1000 Switches for a LAN Party?

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ia-Ryu   09-18-2006 at 10:41:30 PM

I'm going to be hosting a LAN party, for approximately 100-120 gamers (possibly more).

I had planned on picking up 2 24 Port gigabit switches as the main backbones, and the rest are all smaller (16 port) 10/100 switches which would then connect to the PC's.

Do you guys have any recommendations on the switches, or thoughts on this one?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Cust [...] 6833122058

-Ryu

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FredWeston   09-19-2006 at 05:49:29 AM
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I'm confused, why do you need two 24 port switches for a backbone if all the clients will be connecting through 16 port switches? If you get one 16 port switch for the backbone, you could daisy chain eight 16 port switches off of it to connect the clients (128 clients) and still have 8 ports left over on the backbone for servers.

Considering the absolute fastest LAN games use maybe a megabit of bandwidth, LAN games really don't need gigabit. It's all the warez-aholics that suck up the bandwidth at LAN parties.

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