quick question about speeds

[DSD27]

Im confused

http://www.tp-link.com/en/products/details/cat-42_TL-SF1005D.html

 

 

It says 200Mbps

5-port

10/100Mbps

 

So how fast it is after all?

[Guest]

The overall bandwidth is 200 megabit. Each port can deliver up to 100 megabit. Buy a gigabit switch instead of this.

[DSD27]

1 hour ago, spidsepttk said:

The overall bandwidth is 200 megabit. Each port can deliver up to 100 megabit. Buy a gigabit switch instead of this.

I still have only 14Mb ADSL internet connection. There is no fiber at my area yet but they say its comming soon.

Is 100 megabit enough for HD Netflix on a home theater?

[Guest]

Just now, davidsd1990 said:

I still have only 14MB ADSL internet connection. There is no fiber at my area yet but they say its comming soon.

Is 100 megabit enough for HD Netflix on a home theater?

Yes, but Gigabit is a worth it if you put a nas in your house in future. 100 megabit is very slow speed (like 12 megabyte). Plus, gigabit tends to be very cheap.

[DSD27]

5 minutes ago, spidsepttk said:

Yes, but Gigabit is a worth it if you put a nas in your house in future. 100 megabit is very slow speed (like 12 megabyte). Plus, gigabit tends to be very cheap.

Im really confused with megabits and megabytes.

100Mbps internet connection is that megabit or megabyte?

on that connection will this switch do full speed or is it way inferior?

[Guest]

Just now, davidsd1990 said:

Im really confused with megabits and megabytes.

100mbps internet connection is that megabit or megabyte?

on that connection will this switch do full speed or is it way inferior?

8 Megabits in one megabyte. The way of telling is if the B is uppercase. MBps is megabytes, Mbps is megabit.

[DSD27]

1 minute ago, spidsepttk said:

8 Megabits in one megabyte. The way of telling is if the B is uppercase. MBps is megabytes, Mbps is megabit.

so if in the future I have 100Mbps connection this switch can deliver full speed?

Im almost sure that when I get fiber it will be 100Mbps

[Guest]

Just now, davidsd1990 said:

so if in the future I have 100Mbps connection this switch can deliver full speed?

Im almost sure that when I get fiber it will be 100Mbps

Yes, though I would upgrade it to gigabit (1000Mbps) just in case if it is higher than 100Mbps. You don't want to have wasted extra speed.

[DSD27]

3 minutes ago, spidsepttk said:

Yes, though I would upgrade it to gigabit (1000Mbps) just in case if it is higher than 100Mbps. You don't want to have wasted extra speed.

yeah, I will see. This switch will be only for TV (set top box) and a Samsung home theater that has Netflix App. I won't connect any PCs on it so I think even this one is way overkill

[Guest]

Just now, davidsd1990 said:

yeah, I will see. This switch will be only for TV (set top box) and a Samsung home theater that has Netflix App. I won't connect any PCs on it so I think even this one is way overkill

Gigabit shouldn't be too much more expensive.

[Wombo]

54 minutes ago, davidsd1990 said:

Im confused

http://www.tp-link.com/en/products/details/cat-42_TL-SF1005D.html

 

 

It says 200Mbps

5-port

10/100Mbps

 

So how fast it is after all?

The 200Mbps refers to the total switching capacity of the switch, often called "back plane". This is the bandwidth of the internal bus that moves the packets between each interface. So while it has 5 10/100 ports, so theoretically you could put 1Gbps (500Mbps full-duplex) through it, the switch can only only actually handle "switching" up to 200Mbps of packets.

 

Another way to think about the 200Mbps of this product is that each interface can do 100Mbps in and 100Mbps out, that's already your 200Mbps. This switch can't even handle two interfaces communicating with each other at full throughput.

 

The switch does look very sub par, get a gigbit switch. The only thing I'm noticing is that there is no power cable shown, if the device is passively powered or PoE powered, then this device does look kind of neat. However a gigiabit switch will get you further.