Network Switches Advice

[ScarisRacer]

Bloody hell!! I over slept!! What did I miss?!?! 

 

Anyway, I'm looking at getting a network switch, one that can allow port prioritisation. For instance, streaming Wipeout Omega Collection on PS4, but prioritise my PC handle all the capture/streaming.

I have been looking at the Netgear Nighthawk, but I do get the feeling that this one would be rather overpriced for what I need.

 

What would you recommend?

Cheers and I'm sorry for my rather lengthy absence. 

 

[ScarisRacer]

bump...anyone there?

[thebros35]

On 8/6/2017 at 0:01 PM, ScarisRacer said:

Bloody hell!! I over slept!! What did I miss?!?! 

 

Anyway, I'm looking at getting a network switch, one that can allow port prioritisation. For instance, streaming Wipeout Omega Collection on PS4, but prioritise my PC handle all the capture/streaming.

I have been looking at the Netgear Nighthawk, but I do get the feeling that this one would be rather overpriced for what I need.

 

What would you recommend?

Cheers and I'm sorry for my rather lengthy absence. 

 

Port prioritization? I don't know what exactly you are talking about...everything should work automatically. Why would you have to prioritize that traffic? I'm confused.

[ScarisRacer]

19 minutes ago, thebros35 said:

Port prioritization? I don't know what exactly you are talking about...everything should work automatically. Why would you have to prioritize that traffic? I'm confused.

I probably mean QoS.

[Sir Asvald]

7 minutes ago, ScarisRacer said:

I probably mean QoS.

You'd need a L3 managed Switch for QoS or even a router. Those can be expensive 

[thebros35]

OK, I was thinking that was what you meant. But you don't really need QoS... have you tried this setup without QoS? Usually that is just used for priotrizing data in a large enterprise with many different data streams of different media types. If you are just doing this at home, QoS is overkill from what I understand.

 

Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, I would like a second opinion as well.

[ScarisRacer]

So, any good network switch will be fine? Like this one for example:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/d/lve/NETGEAR-GS308-100UKS-Port-Gigabit-Ethernet-1000-Switch/B00AWM7PKO/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1502127004&sr=8-3&keywords=8+port+gigabit+switch

[thebros35]

43 minutes ago, ScarisRacer said:

So, any good network switch will be fine? Like this one for example:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/d/lve/NETGEAR-GS308-100UKS-Port-Gigabit-Ethernet-1000-Switch/B00AWM7PKO/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1502127004&sr=8-3&keywords=8+port+gigabit+switch

I've got that one at home, been using it for about a year. Its basic and works just fine, I would get it.

[Sir Asvald]

1 hour ago, ScarisRacer said:

So, any good network switch will be fine? Like this one for example:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/d/lve/NETGEAR-GS308-100UKS-Port-Gigabit-Ethernet-1000-Switch/B00AWM7PKO/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1502127004&sr=8-3&keywords=8+port+gigabit+switch

It doesn't provide QoS.. It's an unmanaged switch. 

21 minutes ago, thebros35 said:

I've got that one at home, been using it for about a year. Its basic and works just fine, I would get it.

It doesn't provide QoS.. It's an unmanaged switch. 

 

1 hour ago, thebros35 said:

OK, I was thinking that was what you meant. But you don't really need QoS... have you tried this setup without QoS? Usually that is just used for priotrizing data in a large enterprise with many different data streams of different media types. If you are just doing this at home, QoS is overkill from what I understand.

 

Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, I would like a second opinion as well.

QoS does help. If there are multiple people who are hogging the internet connection, everything will slow done and people will complain. If OP has bad internet or the equipment is bad then he/she will need to upgrade. Simple as.