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Check the speed on this switch, you shouldn't be experiencing such a performance lose with a 100Mbit switch. The mostly have 2 leds per port, if the computer on the other end is on, both leds on the port should light up, which indicates that the port is working on full speed.

Arch on my laptop, Crunchbang on my netbook and older laptop and Debian 7 on my servers.

As Blade Of Grass said, Cat 5 can be used for 1000BASE-T (Wikipedia) @Topic: I use the Asus RT-AC68U and I'm very pleased with it. It supports MAC-Filtering, guest-wlans, vpn passthrough and vpn entry/exit points. You can also do media sharing with the usb3 ports, even tough you might already have a better solution for that if you plan on purchasing a 24-port switch . For the Switch, I'd probably go with a Cisco Catalyst, even though they are really expensive. An alternative would be huawei-switches, but I haven't got any experience. EDIT: Linked the router

What ISPs are providing to most costumers is called "best effort". This means, you are getting the maximum of the connection you are paying for that they can deliver. If you live somewhere where there is only really old infrastructure you can still be paying for a 100mbit/s connection but you will only get what the infrastructure allows for. @op You can still try to do more specific speedtests and look around if any other costumers are experiencing this problem, then contact your ISP.

No, just no. It will maybe even cause you trouble because the powerline adapters will cause a loop and the switch might get the same mac-adresses from different locations.

You are streaming a 1080p Video from the internet, so you are just downloading an hd-movie and watching it in real-time.

Go for Ubuntu Server. If you have problems, you could install a gui later on (I would recommend LXDE, since it's like windows and needs little resources). Source-game-servers run well on linux( css, hl2, tf2 etc.), there are some good tutorials which guide you through step-by-step.

I have a satellite, not with the same specs, but with the same chassis. I like the build-quality, it's ok for this pricerange. Keyboard is good, the touchpad is a little "sticky". Screen is also ok. The laptop is full plastic, so it feels quiet cheap but it's durable.

There is also Linux lite, which is based on ubuntu, but requires much less power. https://www.linuxliteos.com/ Since it's very similar to ubuntu you'll find many great tutorials and how-to's.

I personaly prefer amd cards, just for their better price/performance. I hope that nvidia has to work even harder because amd puts presure on them, since their was no "real" thread for nvidias top of the line products, since amd never released any.

They simply don't want to loose money. If they release modding-tools, their game will have a longer lifetime and therefor, they won't be able to sell the sequel as well. They also would have a hard time making money of cheaply made dlcs, since the community would make better additions to their games for free.

No, since a game that only runs 32Bit was designed to just use max 4 GB RAM. Generally speaking, RAM is a rare problem with games, more is your gpu's ram. GoodBytes explained that really well

There are not 64bit versions for every software out there and saddly, many games these days still run 32 bit. So yeah, it could be that all games you tried are still 32bit.

Well, I guess he is not going to shutdown his server often, so an ssd for faster boot-time won't make a big difference. And an ssd for storage is a really expensive solution and they have a higher failure rate after all.

All Systems from apple have some sort of special chip onboard so macosx can be installed. There are indeed hacked iso-files which remove this lock, but it still won't run on not support hardware since there are no drivers available.