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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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[–] 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.