I'm guessing the workstations need to have a gigabit network card to utilize this switch to it's maximum effectiveness? Thank you.
1358123
Technically yes, but that answer is 100% dependent on how your network is designed.
1358124
Yes, if you are not moving large file/ lots of data internally it's probably not a big deal. Most internet connections are nowhere near that fast so if it's the internet you are talking about then does not matter.
28437
It's not WiFi, or am I not understanding you. You have to hook up -- somehow -- both machines to the switch in order to toggle back and forth between them. It's a HARD SWITCH.
2065206
Gigabit is pointless Unless you have a hundred high speed computers all hooked up to it trying to download a massive amount of data at once. In most instances, 10MB is plenty fast for data transfer. 100MB is even overkill. Your computer couldn't even process that much information per second unless you have an insane fast computer with high speed SSD drives. Or you're trying to stream 4K video in a hotel room, for some reason. If you find a Marriott with 4K tv's in the room - let me know.
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The Ethernet port is Gigabit speed. A lot of it depends on the drives you buy and what type of Raid you use (If you use it). I bought Western Digital 2GB Red drives, the ones designed for NAS systems. I am using Synology's Hybrid Raid. I don't remember the exact numbers, but when copying my personal files from my computer, I was getting about 110MB transfer rates. That's almost 900Mb/s. It is the first time I ever ever come close to approaching the Gigabit capabilities of my network. Even if what was being reported wasn't 100% accurate, let's just say it was really fast.
77806
If you only need one Ethernet port, and most of us do, as we are not running servers, this will work and will give you "gigabit" Ethernet capability. I do not know if Windows will configure two ports to run at the same time without using a server OS.
1263026
According to the Specs "The E1200 features four Fast Ethernet ports". To my understanding that is 10/100 not the Gigabit speed.
2184746
That is the wrong kind of switch for what you want to do. You need something like the "Linksys SE2500 5-Port Gigabit Ethernet Switch ".
426113
All ports are gigabit, but the manufacturer is being cagey by omitting throughput statistics. The best 8-port gigabit switches have a maximum throughput of 16 Gbs, and you will see that spec stated on lots of good switches. Since WD had a chance to specify throughput on its specs page and didn't do so, it would not be safe to assume that this switch offers maximum possible throughput.
426111
All ports are gigabit. The specs of the switch are here: http://support.wdc.com/product/install.asp?groupid=1705&lang=en
295865
You need to look at your network topology, not the EX4. There are a lot of different ways to get this thing visible on two networks, but be thankful that this thing doesn't act as a switch or hub, because connecting your two networks (physical or virtual) together, just plugging them into each other anyway, is more than probably going to create DHCP and DNS resolution hell.
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It is 1GB port switch. I have 3 Desktop connected to this switch and all shows link speed 1.0G with full duplex. This switch is connected to 1Gb main access switch in server room.
782786
Something is not right there. On a wired 1Gbps connection with a single copy I would expect at least 400Mbps, with speeds over 700Mbps on faster switches (efficient internal packet forwarding). That is from testing when I first received the unit (tested with 4 x 5200 RPM Toshiba 160GB in RAID 5, prior to 4 x 7200 RPM Seagate 750GB in SHR I have had in it since then - but I haven't tried that on a fast switch, my home switch seems to max about 500Mbps). For comparison, I've seen speeds close to single line speed (~900Mbps) on a DS713+/DX513 combo. If you are on WiFi, I would run hardwired tests for comparison. Then start troubleshooting your WiFi.
1927907
Yes it should. We are running a 2012 R2 environment with 2 hyper-v 2012 servers for testing.No through put problems. However make sure your switch is configuration supports NIC aggregation if its a smart switch. This setting can be ran and managed right from the 2012 R2 & 2012 server management console.Not sure if HP has a application for NIC aggregate like broadcom and Intel does. But the 2012 windows server series seems to handle and manage it just fine. We are also running the NICs and a single point of aggregation that gives us 4Gbps uplink to the network. It's fast!
993691
There are a couple of possible issues. First the switch may be bad but I doubt that given the fact that it works OK. The other issue is do you have anything else taking bandwidth from the incoming connection before it gets to the switch? Finally, there may be something in the computer itself that is drawing bandwidth such as a file transfer that is stealing bandwidth.
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yes gigabit Ethernet port. you can check at acer web site http://us.acer.com/ac/en/US/content/model-datasheet/NX.M49AA.030
975204
According to Intel (http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/network-adapters/converged-network-adapters/ethernet-x540.html) it's PCIe 2.1. It's well-provisioned (2x the requisite bandwidth in fact) to support dual 10Gbit ports, even if both ports are fully saturated. At least from the PCIe bus perspective. Whether or not the host machine and/or the controller on this card can maintain that kind of rate is another matter.
1790225
My devices are hooked up through a gigabit switch, however, the switch is reporting 10/100 speed on those ports. So to answer your question, it downgrades gigabit to 10/100.