home network

[CatXice]

so were moving to a new house in the next few months and it has ethernet running though it to every room, if i put both pc's in one of the rooms but it only has 1 ethernet port do i just need to put a small switch in that room and thats it or not. I have no idea at all about networking so more help the better 

 

just to be clear router in kitchen all rooms have there own ethernet to the router only 1 ethernet port per room

[Electronics Wizardy]

Yup a switch is what you want. Will work fine with no configuration for a basic unmanaged switch. 

[Proud Cipher]

Just now, Electronics Wizardy said:

Yup a switch is what you want. Will work fine with no configuration for a basic unmanaged switch. 

For something like this it's pretty plug-and-play. Bear in mind though that if both computers are downloading/uploading at the same time they will be sharing the bandwidth of the one ethernet cable. For internet access you probably wouldn't notice unless you are getting gigabit fiber from your ISP. However if you have, say, a NAS (Network Attached Storage, basically acting as one big hard drive that only machines on the local network can access) and both machines are writing or reading data to/from the NAS it could cut datarates in half.

[CatXice]

9 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

Yup a switch is what you want. Will work fine with no configuration for a basic unmanaged switch. 

 

5 minutes ago, Proud Cipher said:

For something like this it's pretty plug-and-play. Bear in mind though that if both computers are downloading/uploading at the same time they will be sharing the bandwidth of the one ethernet cable. For internet access you probably wouldn't notice unless you are getting gigabit fiber from your ISP. However if you have, say, a NAS (Network Attached Storage, basically acting as one big hard drive that only machines on the local network can access) and both machines are writing or reading data to/from the NAS it could cut datarates in half.

other question as were moving to a little village and uk internet suckksssssss we can only get 80mbps tops if i download a game on 1 pc is there a easy way to transfer it over the network to the over pc atm i have a 256 usb ssd which works fairly well as it hits like 300mbps but anything over 60gb thermal throttles down to like 80mbps as its not cooled at all so hoping a LAN would fix this problem easily

[Proud Cipher]

4 minutes ago, CatXice said:

 

other question as were moving to a little village and uk internet suckksssssss we can only get 80mbps tops if i download a game on 1 pc is there a easy way to transfer it over the network to the over pc atm i have a 256 usb ssd which works fairly well as it hits like 300mbps but anything over 60gb thermal throttles down to like 80mbps as its not cooled at all so hoping a LAN would fix this problem easily

Actually there is. Linus uses a solution like this with Steam. See, Steam actually has a feature that allows you to set a storage server as a sort of buffer, so if a computer on your network wants to download a game that is on that storage server, it will automatically download it from the local server rather than Steam's servers.

 

EDIT: Ars Technica has a tutorial on how to set one up! They're called Steam Caching servers. https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2017/01/building-a-local-steam-caching-server-to-ease-the-bandwidth-blues/

[LIGISTX]

22 hours ago, Proud Cipher said:

Actually there is. Linus uses a solution like this with Steam. See, Steam actually has a feature that allows you to set a storage server as a sort of buffer, so if a computer on your network wants to download a game that is on that storage server, it will automatically download it from the local server rather than Steam's servers.

 

EDIT: Ars Technica has a tutorial on how to set one up! They're called Steam Caching servers. https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2017/01/building-a-local-steam-caching-server-to-ease-the-bandwidth-blues/

While it’s totally possible…. It’s likely not something most people would ever implement. 
 

OP’s USB stick is not a bad option, OP can just share the steam apps folder over the network, and transfer from one PC to the other over the LAN (which will top out at ~120 MBps, but it will be a pretty consistent 120). 

[vmdyap2022]

Yup a switch will be the easiest solution.