bhargavthriler
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bhargavthriler reacted to LionSpeck in Switch or Router for better LAN speed
Depends on your budget; I'd say, if you can, get a better router. Both solutions will work either way to solve your problem.
Sure, but there's two catches:
- if you upgrade the internet plan down the line, you may be limited at that point by the router;
- Wi-Fi 5GHz can get better bandwidth than 100Mbps, so using a switch would keep the Wi-Fi devices connected at slow speed.
Just keep these two things in mind; if you don't care about either, then get the switch.
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bhargavthriler reacted to mariushm in Switch or Router for better LAN speed
Get a 1 gbps switch and put it between the router and the computers. One cable between the router and switch, one cable between each computer and the switch, job done.
Transfers between computes will go through the switch, internet will go through the switch to the router.
Switches are no-brains devices, they just switch data packets between ports, so it's more or less invisible to the router and transfers between two computers don't even reach the router.
