Networking and Bottlenecks

[Charlicious]

Hi everyone,

 

I've spent days 'studying' and learning whatever I can about networking and possible causes for bottleneck and I just thought maybe I could get opinions from you guys.

 

The current build:

 

Asus M5A97 EVO R2.0 Motherboard

Windows 7 SP1 (I just prefer it that way)

8GB Corsair Vengeance RAM 1600Mhz

Sapphire R9 270X Dual X GPU

960GB Sandisk Ultra II SSD

1TB WD Green HDD

VS650 Corsair PSU

ASUS RT-AC88U Router

 

The situation:

• I have just signed up for a 2Gbps Fibre Optic Broadband service.
• I am looking at direct connection from PC to Router via Cat 7 Ethernet Cable
• I would like to get the most out of the awesomely reviewed Broadband service without hitting a bottleneck (due to software/hardware).

 

The help I need:

1. With the facts I have presented, I would like to know what kind of issues I might face.
2. Which of my hardware will cause a bottleneck in my internet connection.

 

Thanks a whole bunch fellas!

[Samfisher]

Your NIC.  You'll need to get a 10Gigabit one, and HOPEFULLY your ISP isn't cheating you and giving you a router with only Gigabt ports.

[Venomz1337]

4 minutes ago, Charlicious said:

Hi everyone,

 

I've spent days 'studying' and learning whatever I can about networking and possible causes for bottleneck and I just thought maybe I could get opinions from you guys.

 

The current build:

 

Asus M5A97 EVO R2.0 Motherboard

Windows 7 SP1 (I just prefer it that way)

8GB Corsair Vengeance RAM 1600Mhz

Sapphire R9 270X Dual X GPU

960GB Sandisk Ultra II SSD

1TB WD Green HDD

VS650 Corsair PSU

 

The situation:

• I have just signed up for a 2Gbps Fibre Optic Broadband service.
• I am looking at direct connection from PC to Router via Cat 7 Ethernet Cable
• I would like to get the most out of the awesomely reviewed Broadband service without hitting a bottleneck (due to software/hardware).

 

The help I need:

1. With the facts I have presented, I would like to know what kind of issues I might face.
2. Which of my hardware will cause a bottleneck in my internet connection.

 

Thanks a whole bunch fellas!

 

Hardware won't cause any significant issues with your broadband. I'd be more worried about the ISP delivering their promised performance.

[Charlicious]

5 minutes ago, Samfisher said:

Your NIC.  You'll need to get a 10Gigabit one, and HOPEFULLY your ISP isn't cheating you and giving you a router with only Gigabt ports.

I'd consider myself really new to these stuff. NIC present on my MOBO will cause the bottleneck?

 

Edit: I see it now..
 

Wired network ports

1x 10/100/1000Mbit/s

 

 

[Samfisher]

Just now, Charlicious said:

I'd consider myself really new to these stuff. NIC present on my MOBO will cause the bottleneck?

Yes. VERY few motherboards come with 10 Gigabit NICs, and yours isn't one of them. 

[Charlicious]

2 minutes ago, Samfisher said:

Yes. VERY few motherboards come with 10 Gigabit NICs, and yours isn't one of them. 

Thanks! Gotcha. Bottomline is, in theory, at best, I would able to achieve speeds up to a max of 1Gbps?

 

And accounting for the SSD bottleneck of 550MB/S, how would that affect my download/upload speeds?

[Samfisher]

1 minute ago, Charlicious said:

Thanks! Gotcha. Bottomline is, in theory, at best, I would able to achieve speeds up to a max of 1Gbps?

 

And accounting for the SSD bottleneck of 550MB/S, how would that affect my download/upload speeds?

Well, you'd need a 4 Gigabit line to come close to saturating your SSD speeds 1 Gigabit = 125MB

 

That is if the source even lets you download that fast.

[Charlicious]

4 minutes ago, Samfisher said:

Well, you'd need a 4 Gigabit line to come close to saturating your SSD speeds 1 Gigabit = 125MB

 

That is if the source even lets you download that fast.

You've been really helpful  Thank you!