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Take advantage of 2.5gb port with switches? (self.networking)

submitted 10 months ago by HeyJoe to c/networking

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Just a quick question since I am not sure if I am thinking about this correctly. I have 1 2.5gb port on my new router and the rest are 1gb. I wanted to buy a switch that leveraged the 2.5gb port but the devices plugged into it will be 1gb which will work since it's backwards compatible. My question is will this allow for a higher maximum throughput since the uplink is at 2.5gb allowing for me to max out the 1gb connections on the switch? Or is that not how it will work and I will see no difference between a 1gb switch plugged into a 1gb uplink?

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[–] slazer2au 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

If you have 2PCs connect at 1Gb to a switch and you have that switch connected at 2.5Gb to your router, both PCs will be able to pull 1Gb each within reason. Assuming the upstream devices also has the guts for 2Gb throughput.

[–] HeyJoe 2 points 10 months ago

Thanks! Glad to know my assumption was correct. When looking at switches they really do not talk about that much from the ones I saw and I have been burned more than once by misreading 1 small bit of info.