(advanced) Question about making fast lan connection between PC and LAN-Hard drive

Someone wants to get a new drive that is external and only has a lan
connection (1 gig).

The computer does have a 1 gig ethernet on the motherboard...

however the ROUTER that will be connecting the 2 is only 100MB ...

So what would happen is that the connection speed would drop to 100mb of
course since that's the router speed.

So I thought of getting a new 1 GIG SWITCH and connect everything as you can
see in this diagram:

http://img410.imageshack.us/img410/2135/graphic1gm3.jpg

I suspect that the speed connection between the router and switch would be
100mb
and the connection between the PC and HARD DRIVE would be 1 Gig...

I would want to have the speed between the Drive and PC to be 1 Gig even
though the router is 100 MB.

can someone tell me if my thoughts are correct?


thank you!

bokrok wrote:
> Someone wants to get a new drive that is external and only has a lan
> connection (1 gig).
>
> The computer does have a 1 gig ethernet on the motherboard...
>
> however the ROUTER that will be connecting the 2 is only 100MB ...
>
> So what would happen is that the connection speed would drop to 100mb of
> course since that's the router speed.
>
> So I thought of getting a new 1 GIG SWITCH and connect everything as you
> can
> see in this diagram:
>
> http://img410.imageshack.us/img410/2135/graphic1gm3.jpg
>
> I suspect that the speed connection between the router and switch would be
> 100mb
> and the connection between the PC and HARD DRIVE would be 1 Gig...
>
> I would want to have the speed between the Drive and PC to be 1 Gig even
> though the router is 100 MB.
>
> can someone tell me if my thoughts are correct?
>
>
> thank you!
>
>


That is how it should work. In fact, you should be able to disconnect the
router and smash it to bits and have no effect on the speed of the local
networking through the switch. Of course, for high speed operation, this
1gb network connection will never be that fast and eSATA, Firewire, or USB
will be ever so much quicker. But if you have patience...

John McGaw
http://johnmcgaw.com

Hi
In case you need help, or any other thing involved the storage device.
The device that you have is Not called External Hard Drive, it is a NAS =
Network Accessed Storage.
In addition do not get upset when you discover that the basic speed between
the Computer and the NAS would be about 20-30MB/sec. (B=Byte)
These Devices are called Giga but the real network Bandwidth that they yield
is much lower than 1000Mb/sec. (b=bit, 8bits=1Byte).
Jack (MS, MVP-Networking)

"bokrok" <nk@yan.fr> wrote in message
news:48e60aa8$1@newsgate.x-privat.org...
> Someone wants to get a new drive that is external and only has a lan
> connection (1 gig).
>
> The computer does have a 1 gig ethernet on the motherboard...
>
> however the ROUTER that will be connecting the 2 is only 100MB ...
>
> So what would happen is that the connection speed would drop to 100mb of
> course since that's the router speed.
>
> So I thought of getting a new 1 GIG SWITCH and connect everything as you
> can
> see in this diagram:
>
> http://img410.imageshack.us/img410/2135/graphic1gm3.jpg
>
> I suspect that the speed connection between the router and switch would be
> 100mb
> and the connection between the PC and HARD DRIVE would be 1 Gig...
>
> I would want to have the speed between the Drive and PC to be 1 Gig even
> though the router is 100 MB.
>
> can someone tell me if my thoughts are correct?
>
>
> thank you!
>
>