Gigabyte port/Switch

[tp95112]

What is a Gigabyte port/Switch and whats the use of it?

[rufee]

It is called Gigabit (bit and byte are not the same, bear that in mind) that is 100 Megabytes per second and as the name suggests it is used for packet data transfer. A switch is a Layer 2 device where your router is Layer 3, in simple terms a switch expands your routers ports (you can get 5-48 extra ports, depending on the switch by just only using one port on your router), when you get into the advanced stuff there are VLANS (virtual local area networks), link aggregation (using 2 or more ports and getting more speed out of it), and many more features mostly used for business.

[RikusWhite]

It is called Gigabit (bit and byte are not the same, bear that in mind) that is 100 Megabytes per second and as the name suggests it is used for packet data transfer. A switch is a Layer 2 device where your router is Layer 3, in simple terms a switch expands your routers ports (you can get 5-48 extra ports, depending on the switch by just only using one port on your router), when you get into the advanced stuff there are VLANS (virtual local area networks), link aggregation (using 2 or more ports and getting more speed out of it), and many more features mostly used for business.

Isn't gigabit switch speeds up to 1000 Megabytes per second?

[rufee]

It is called Gigabit (bit and byte are not the same, bear that in mind) that is 100 Megabytes per second and as the name suggests it is used for packet data transfer. A switch is a Layer 2 device where your router is Layer 3, in simple terms a switch expands your routers ports (you can get 5-48 extra ports, depending on the switch by just only using one port on your router), when you get into the advanced stuff there are VLANS (virtual local area networks), link aggregation (using 2 or more ports and getting more speed out of it), and many more features mostly used for business.

No, 1 Gigabit = 128 Megabytes. It can be quite confusing at times. 10/100 for example is 1 megabyte/10 megabytes.

[RikusWhite]

It is called Gigabit (bit and byte are not the same, bear that in mind) that is 100 Megabytes per second and as the name suggests it is used for packet data transfer. A switch is a Layer 2 device where your router is Layer 3, in simple terms a switch expands your routers ports (you can get 5-48 extra ports, depending on the switch by just only using one port on your router), when you get into the advanced stuff there are VLANS (virtual local area networks), link aggregation (using 2 or more ports and getting more speed out of it), and many more features mostly used for business.

Okay. Thanks, good to know.

[RyanC]

It is called Gigabit (bit and byte are not the same, bear that in mind) that is 100 Megabytes per second and as the name suggests it is used for packet data transfer. A switch is a Layer 2 device where your router is Layer 3, in simple terms a switch expands your routers ports (you can get 5-48 extra ports, depending on the switch by just only using one port on your router), when you get into the advanced stuff there are VLANS (virtual local area networks), link aggregation (using 2 or more ports and getting more speed out of it), and many more features mostly used for business.

100 / 8 = 12.5MB/s .... 10 / 8 = 1.25MB/s

[tp95112]

Whats the diffidence between cat5 and cat5e?

[KingLinkTiger]

Whats the diffidence between cat5 and cat5e?

Please reference http://linustechtips.com/main/forum/computer-hardware/networking/71123-what-makes-a-good-ethernet-cable?p=71145#post71145 , we have gone over the differences of different Ethernet cables.