Will my bandwidth decrease if I use a wireless g router for dhcp and a gigabit switch for ethernet?
I have a linksys wrt54g for wireless and a standard gigabit switch for ethernet. The linksys only has 10/100 ports so I am not sure if my entire network would be slowed down using the linksys for dhcp.
I think you guys misunderstand me. I am not talking about bandwidth inregards to downloads from the internet but the throughput of file transfers on my network over the gigabit switch. Say if I used a server with a gig enet card and did the dhcp using that via using the linksys would I see a slow down because the linksys only uses 10/100 enet?
DHCP is only used to provide the ip address – and that is only renewed per settings default is around 15 days. Unless you do a release all and renew. still it only takes a few seconds before traffic starts running anyway. This will not affect your bandwith at all. However a 10 meg nic card in a pc will only work at 10 meg max, this can slow down your network.
Keep in mind the slowest point in the circuit is the fastest you can go, so if your provider can not do gig speed neither can you.
Only if your bandwidth is greater than 100Mbps
.. which is unlikely….
the 10/100/1000 is not going to work on your system. at most, the fastest download speed you’ll get is 10mbps max. this is according to what speed of service your isp is.
if the node is on the same switch then it will tx at a full 1000mbps but if it is not, then it must send it to the router to route the traffic and it will slow to the slowest speed (if it’s local traffic it’ll be at 100) if it’s a printer it’ll be @ 10 and if it’s internet based it’ll prob be @ .5-6mbps depending on the provider and if it’s dedicated.