Print

Please login or register.
1 Hour 1 Day 1 Week 1 Month Forever
Login with username, password and session length

[drick]

hi,

i need to upgrade my DIR-825 to something else that has 8 GigE ports and Wireless-N.

Any suggestions?

TIA
D

[rlhamil]

hi,

i need to upgrade my DIR-825 to something else that has 8 GigE ports and Wireless-N.

Any suggestions?

TIA
D

Unless all 8 ports are typically going to be talking to each other
at a significant part of the full speed of the GigE, and assuming
the DIR-825 is well-behaved when a 5-port switch is plugged
into one of its LAN ports, wouldn't adding a switch be cheaper?
I see 5 port GigE switches for $30 or less...

A quick search for
8-port wireless n router
shows the DIR-632; however, it appears to only be 10/100 on its
ports, and also appears not to have wireless a/b (not dual band).

The very cursory googling I've done seems to suggest that 8 ports
of GigE may be going beyond what's typical of consumer devices;
given the internal bandwidth required, that doesn't entirely surprise
me.

[drick]

yeah, i did the same search and came up with the same results.

ideally, it would be nice to have it all in one unit due to power and space constraints (this is currently used for my home media center).

i did however end up throwing in an 8 port NetGear switch that i had laying around as a workaround.

interesting side note, performance almost doubled after making that change.

[rlhamil]

yeah, i did the same search and came up with the same results.

ideally, it would be nice to have it all in one unit due to power and space constraints (this is currently used for my home media center).

i did however end up throwing in an 8 port NetGear switch that i had laying around as a workaround.

interesting side note, performance almost doubled after making that change.

The switch keeps all the traffic between the clients plugged into
it from bothering the router at all.  If it's faster, then the
local performance would be better.  The only hit I can see is
whatever the latency of the switch is (not much I expect) added
to the traffic to/from the Internet.

I don't know enough about the implementation of either router or
switch (and probably wouldnt understand anyway) to speculate
further than that.

Power?  The DIR-825 is if I understand correctly supposed to use less
power if ports are unused or cables are short, although the switch will
surely use more than the DIR-825 saves by having less ports in use.
No idea whether the switch behaves similarly.