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looking to upgrade my 5g wifi at home and i do alot of video transfers over my lan network to my NAS. my Nas has a 2.5g card but my router is only GBE. is there a recommended router that has both WIFI6 and 2.5gbe lan ports that doesnt cost 300+ usd. or can i just put a 2.5gb unmanaged switch in the network to take advantage of 2.5gbe speeds?

Does whatever device you are using also have 2.5+? Wifi won't get you there... if you want to actually take advantage of greater then gigabit, you will need physical networking between all the devices involved.

 

And yes, if both devices have 2.5, you can put a switch in the network and data between the PC and NAS (assuming they are both plugged directly and only into that switch), that would work. Switches route traffic based on MAC addresses, so no need to go to the router for internal networking. But if you have any switches in between that 2.5GB switch and either the PC or NAS, your speed is going to cut down to the speed of the lowest link in the chain. Hopefully that makes sense.

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looking to upgrade my 5g wifi at home and i do alot of video transfers over my lan network to my NAS. my Nas has a 2.5g card but my router is only GBE. is there a recommended router that has both WIFI6 and 2.5gbe lan ports that doesnt cost 300+ usd. or can i just put a 2.5gb unmanaged switch in the network to take advantage of 2.5gbe speeds?

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looking to upgrade my 5g wifi at home and i do alot of video transfers over my lan network to my NAS. my Nas has a 2.5g card but my router is only GBE. is there a recommended router that has both WIFI6 and 2.5gbe lan ports that doesnt cost 300+ usd. or can i just put a 2.5gb unmanaged switch in the network to take advantage of 2.5gbe speeds?

Does whatever device you are using also have 2.5+? Wifi won't get you there... if you want to actually take advantage of greater then gigabit, you will need physical networking between all the devices involved.

 

And yes, if both devices have 2.5, you can put a switch in the network and data between the PC and NAS (assuming they are both plugged directly and only into that switch), that would work. Switches route traffic based on MAC addresses, so no need to go to the router for internal networking. But if you have any switches in between that 2.5GB switch and either the PC or NAS, your speed is going to cut down to the speed of the lowest link in the chain. Hopefully that makes sense.

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i would simply get an unmanaged 5 port switch. One port to the Router, One to the NAS, one to your PC. Done, easy and cheap. (~100 USD)

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2.5Gb unmanaged switch will be fine if you want to move stuff over ethernet.

 

I use (and would recommend) a TP-Link TL-SG105-M2 to connect my PCs to my NAS.

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16 minutes ago, will0hlep said:

2.5Gb unmanaged switch will be fine if you want to move stuff over ethernet.

 

I use (and would recommend) a TP-Link TL-SG105-M2 to connect my PCs to my NAS.

i think that is what i will use. i was looking at the trendnet but i like this one better

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31 minutes ago, daveyjones98 said:

i think that is what i will use. i was looking at the trendnet but i like this one better

I'd have a look at

 

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