We’ve been running a 10/100 Ethernet switch in the Automated house because we moved in almost 10 years ago.  With much more gadgets on the LAN – currently nearing 40 IP address utilized (see the listing below) as well as with ever larger data moving around our network, the time has come to upgrade to a 10/100/1000 gigabit switch.

Our switch lives in the 19″ rack in Node Zero as well as so we requirement one more rackmount system to replace the 10/100.  having had great service from the previous Netgear FSM726S as well as hearing great things about its huge sibling – the Netgear GS724T we chose to provide it a try.

The administration – The GS724T has 24 10/100/1000 ports.  It’s a “Managed” switch implying it has enhanced performance compared with a fundamental un-managed device.  A web-browser interface enables you to screen switch performance, configure ports, even set up port trunks, VLANs, as well as web traffic prioritization.

The quick as well as the Furious – At the end of the day what we truly want to understand is exactly how much quicker it is.  In our semi-scientific test we copied a 4.7 gigabyte test data across our LAN utilizing the old 10/100 switch very first (from a Mac small to an iMac – both utilize gigabit NICs) as well as then the test was repeated when the new switch was installed.

As you can see from the graph below,  the genuine world benefits of the upgrade are remarkable.  The old switch took 7 miniutes as well as 8 seconds to copy the file, while the upgrade brought that time down to just 1 minutes as well as 58 seconds – a 72% improvement.

Its likewise worth discussing that the cabling for our network was installed in our home over 10 years back as well as is common CAT5 (not CAT5e).  So, all in all a excellent result as well as a truly worth while upgrade.  next on the listing is to update our JukeBox server to SATA as well as Gigabit NIC, however that’s one for one more day.

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After publishing a quick picture of our recently installed switch on Twitter a few days ago, a few of our followers (followus at Twitter.com/ottomate) asked what IP gadgets we used.  As guaranteed here’s a listing of the products currently on our LAN, (we may have missed some that aren’t active currently)…

Router

CCTV Server PC

Home Automation Server PC

Jukebox Media Server PC

Kitchen Mac

Vista Media center PC

Netbook

Laptop

Laptop

Apple TV

Games Console

Sonos zone 1

Sonos zone 2

Sonos zone 3

Sonos Controller

IP CCTV video camera 1

IP CCTV video camera 2

IP CCTV video camera 3

Bedside Computer

AV space Computer

xBox Media center 1

xBox Media center 2

xBox Media center 3

Games Console

Mobile Phone 1

Mobile Phone 2

Mobile Phone 3

Network Switch

Apple TimeCapsule (802.11n network)

Wireless gain access to point (802.11a/b/g network)

Printer

Wi-Fi picture Frame

Keene IR over Ethernet Module 1

Keene IR over Ethernet Module 2

Alarm System

VoIP Phone

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Last update on 2021-10-04 / affiliate links / pictures from Amazon product marketing API