Re: Overall networking issue...

Jacob Tranholm wrote:

There are several switches (5 or 6 48 port rack-switches (they are
some years old, but they still work)), but I have not checked which
connection speed they use internally (between them self). Management
isn't planning anything... This is not a big company we are walking
about, it's a school, and we are working within a limited budget...

Don't forget that the passive infrastructure (cables, wall outlets etc)
might not be suitable for Gbit networking. Replacing these can easily
be much more expensive than buying a few switches.
Here we lost half of our wall outlets because the 1000Base-T needs eight
wires on CAT-5 cables instead of four for fast ethernet.

And most of our students use their own computers and connect through
the wireless network, where they also have the possibility of
accessing the fileserver. And the stationary computers all use the
fileserver for storing/reading user-files. And the fileserver is the
major reason why we need a faster connection from the server-room to
the switches/hubs/routers/whatevertheyare where every network cable is
connected. - For the clients megabit should be enough.

This should work. All Gbit switches I'm aware of negotiate the standard
with the network card attached to one of the ports. So mixing the two
standards in not a problem and works just fine here.

Günther
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