5 gigabit ports for £9.99 (sadly you need to order £20 or more for free delivery), but I thought it worth posting.
Find me 5 gigabit ports cheaper!
Yes it's plastic, but hey I need to replace my Cisco SR2024C as it's just too loud!
All comments (26)
voicon
9 Aug 16#1
Nice Jumbo Frame support as well if your in to that sort of thing!
james000
9 Aug 16#2
what's deal with the plastic vs metal argument? is it a heat thing?
Gollywood to james000
9 Aug 16#3
I went with the all metal. Just feels superior quality & build wise
Roger_Irrelevant to james000
9 Aug 16#4
Plus these tend to have a hard life, shoved to the back of a cupboard and forgotten about save being crushed by the occasional server etc. :smiley:
aLV426
9 Aug 16#5
My Cisco Cisco SR2024C has been in the wars! It looks like it's been driven over a few times, there are a few things wrong with it - the fan (I replaced it - however it's the airflow that makes the noise!) and the fact that it's not managed. I also only using 5 out of the 20 available ports. So when I saw this I thought I'll have that for a tenner!
Plastic vs metal in a residential environment is really down to personal choice, they both serve (no pun intended) the same purpose. Plastic is usually cheaper and for a unit this size you don't need rack mountings...
Meluk9
10 Aug 16#6
Do u need gigabit for average home use and even basic office use?
friar_chris to Meluk9
10 Aug 162#9
Basic office use....no, you won't need gigabit.
1080p video......no you won't need gigabit, unless you want to stream to more than one device, but it might be preferable to get gigabit anyway.
You need 5MB/s (40mbps) for a decent (subjective) 1080p stream. So (slower) fast Ethernet at a theoretical 100mbps would be sufficient. Gigabit Ethernet has a theoretical 1000mbps (or 125MB/s - enough for 360GB of data in an hour if your hard drive is up to it.
aLV426 to Meluk9
10 Aug 16#20
Yes, I do, your milage may vary. As with most things it depends upon usage, I have 4 kids, if they all stream from the server 100mbps doesn't cut it... Gigabit advantages
Hootwo to Meluk9
12 Aug 16#23
gigabit costs little more than 100Mbps. Even if you are a light user, I'd go straight to gigabit.
Delio79
10 Aug 161#7
Yes, you probably do.
If you want to stream 4k HD content (stored on a hard disk) around the house while doing other things, you need Gigabit.
spicerob
10 Aug 16#8
Yes you need gigabit . More importantly you may need more ports ! I count 6 devices in our house at the moment ( sky, mac mini , now t.v , apple t.v , T.V itself , mx111 box. ) and who knows what else in the future. I just got the T.P sg108 for £20 and it's probably the best you can get for the money .
wakkaday
10 Aug 16#10
He doe the switch thing work my qnap nas say I need a switch for gigabit if I am using both ports
CampGareth to wakkaday
10 Aug 16#13
Uh, so it sounds like your QNAP NAS is a device with two gigabit ethernet ports. There are two ways of doing things, use one of those ports to connect to your computer forming a dedicated gigabit link, or connect one (or both) of those ports to a switch then connect your computer to the switch.
If you're using one port on your NAS with a switch then this switch will be fine. Problems arise when you start using two ports. It gets a bit tricky to determine what'll happen since there are loads of technologies to make use of multiple links but what'll likely happen is your second port goes unused.
If you really want both gigabit ports worth of bandwidth you'll want a managed switch that supports 802.3ad, or "link aggregation". That means your switch has a small computer embedded to manage the switch, you log into that and then tell it to combine two ports. These are generally not cheap switches, though check ebay for used ones, my d-link DGS3024 for instance was £50 second hand.
OttovonPrimark
10 Aug 16#11
Thanks OP. Just ordered. I'm not a Prime member but it still went through at £9.99. :smile:
deathtrap3000 to OttovonPrimark
10 Aug 16#12
Did you get free delivery or buy it with something else??
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Opening post
Find me 5 gigabit ports cheaper!
Yes it's plastic, but hey I need to replace my Cisco SR2024C as it's just too loud!
All comments (26)
Plastic vs metal in a residential environment is really down to personal choice, they both serve (no pun intended) the same purpose. Plastic is usually cheaper and for a unit this size you don't need rack mountings...
1080p video......no you won't need gigabit, unless you want to stream to more than one device, but it might be preferable to get gigabit anyway.
You need 5MB/s (40mbps) for a decent (subjective) 1080p stream. So (slower) fast Ethernet at a theoretical 100mbps would be sufficient. Gigabit Ethernet has a theoretical 1000mbps (or 125MB/s - enough for 360GB of data in an hour if your hard drive is up to it.
Gigabit advantages
If you want to stream 4k HD content (stored on a hard disk) around the house while doing other things, you need Gigabit.
If you're using one port on your NAS with a switch then this switch will be fine. Problems arise when you start using two ports. It gets a bit tricky to determine what'll happen since there are loads of technologies to make use of multiple links but what'll likely happen is your second port goes unused.
If you really want both gigabit ports worth of bandwidth you'll want a managed switch that supports 802.3ad, or "link aggregation". That means your switch has a small computer embedded to manage the switch, you log into that and then tell it to combine two ports. These are generally not cheap switches, though check ebay for used ones, my d-link DGS3024 for instance was £50 second hand.