Power saving technology for energy efficiency
Ideal for home and small office networks
Auto connect to router and modem using any port
Fan-less design for quiet operation
All comments (31)
waaqii
9 May 16#1
lowest price on CCC was £13.89 back in March 2015
OnlyJoeKing
9 May 16#2
Been looking for something to let me connect my PC and PS4 at the same time, but is there any advantage to this over a cheaper model? My Internet isn't that fast - can't get fibre-optic - and you can pick up a plastic 5 porter for £6 on Amazon...
waaqii to OnlyJoeKing
9 May 16#3
Just make sure it's got gigabit ports (1000mb)
dipsylalapo to OnlyJoeKing
9 May 16#6
I'm not sure who your provider is but does the router/modem you got with your broadband not allow for multiple connections?
Python5
9 May 161#4
why gigabit ports?? he would only need that if he wanted to transfer at that speed from PC to ps4. if he hasn't got fibre the 100mbit would do fine. obviously if price is cheap enough I would get the 1000mbit
tan159 to Python5
9 May 162#5
Futureproofing. He may want to add another device a year or 2 away like a NAS that definately needs a gigabit connection.
mivanpy
9 May 16#7
Don't know much about this sort of thing BUT i have a long ethernet cable running upstairs to the console. Would i lose any speed to the console with this if i routed through this switch 1st then fed my other gear from it. Console TV sky box laptop etc
Short on plugs so not gonna work for me. Mainly for sky box really with downloads
Heated for the price reasonable.
phassall
9 May 161#8
Great deal!! Got one of these behind my tv connected to XB1 Blu Ray Amp Sky etc, well worth it, great build quality plug in and forget.
BubaMan
9 May 161#9
No - this is far quicker than your Internet connection.
mivanpy
9 May 16#10
:smirk:
Chiptivo
9 May 16#11
A couple of people make good points here. I don;t do internal transfers, so do I actually need this.
My Virgin router has gigabit ports and the xbox, SkyHD and raspberry PI is gigabit. Inbetween the router and devices I route round the house and the potential achilles heal is a 100mps HUB in the middle of all this.
Logic would say this is a potential bottle neck, but is it really?? I would say with the speeds of potential data, it is all fine?
DVS_Dee to Chiptivo
9 May 16#15
Are you using a gigabit adapter on your RPi? As the built in LAN is only 10/100.
jouster to Chiptivo
9 May 16#16
Is the Raspberry gigbait enabled now...didn't know that. Which model? To be honest unless you have the need to shift large amount of data around your home Gigabit may seem like overkill but for only a few quid more it will mean you don't need to replace going forward. With a large media server in my home and ripping BluRays to my PC for conversion I NEED the speed for transfers, but for most its not needed.
It should be said that if you have a HUB that everything passes through, your speed is limited to the speed of that HUB...if thats the case your gigabit capabilities mean nothing.
lilbeastie to Chiptivo
9 May 16#18
The Pi doesn't need gigabit - it's only got a usb2-equipped 10/100 network port on it (whichever ethernet-equipped version you have) so if that's hooked up to a gigabit port you may be better moving it elsewhere if you have another device that could benefit from the increased bandwidth.
Are the latest Sky boxes gigabit now too? The older boxes were definitely 10/100, and I don't know of a reason why the newer ones would need gigabit but it's not something I use so I may be wrong.
Do you really have a HUB though rather than a SWITCH? A hub will slow your network down much more than a switch will when multiple devices are operating. Whether there is any real-world issues with the lack of gigabit and the use of a hub depends a lot on what your actual uses are for the whole system - not everybody does need the boost from gigabit, but for some people gigabit is too slow (me included) and i'd move a number of my devices to 10G if I could afford it!
(prices for 10G have dropped significantly over the last few years - I just can't afford the divorce that would follow if I started to run fibres everywhere...)
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Opening post
Power saving technology for energy efficiency
Ideal for home and small office networks
Auto connect to router and modem using any port
Fan-less design for quiet operation
All comments (31)
Short on plugs so not gonna work for me. Mainly for sky box really with downloads
Heated for the price reasonable.
My Virgin router has gigabit ports and the xbox, SkyHD and raspberry PI is gigabit. Inbetween the router and devices I route round the house and the potential achilles heal is a 100mps HUB in the middle of all this.
Logic would say this is a potential bottle neck, but is it really?? I would say with the speeds of potential data, it is all fine?
It should be said that if you have a HUB that everything passes through, your speed is limited to the speed of that HUB...if thats the case your gigabit capabilities mean nothing.
Are the latest Sky boxes gigabit now too? The older boxes were definitely 10/100, and I don't know of a reason why the newer ones would need gigabit but it's not something I use so I may be wrong.
Do you really have a HUB though rather than a SWITCH? A hub will slow your network down much more than a switch will when multiple devices are operating. Whether there is any real-world issues with the lack of gigabit and the use of a hub depends a lot on what your actual uses are for the whole system - not everybody does need the boost from gigabit, but for some people gigabit is too slow (me included) and i'd move a number of my devices to 10G if I could afford it!
(prices for 10G have dropped significantly over the last few years - I just can't afford the divorce that would follow if I started to run fibres everywhere...)