airport extreme with gigabit switch

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dage007dage007
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in Genius Bar edited January 2014
Does anyone know if this is possible:



Seeing how the new airport extreme comes with 3 lan ports at 10/100, I am looking to hook up my gigabit switch to it because that is what all my computers run on at home "gigabit". Of course this is simple enough to do gigabit port to one of hte extreme lan ports. But I want to know if it would be possible to connect maybe 2 or 3 of the gigabit ports to 2 or 3 of the extreme lan ports. I figured this way I could in theory obtain up to 300Mb/s from my gigabit switch to the new airport extreme.



Reason for this is because if I want to stream HD content over the network I need arround 8MB/s or 64Mb/s from waht I understand. If more then 1 computer wants to watch a movie from the usb2 drive that is connected then I need over the available 100Mb/s per port.



any ideas on how I can achieve over 100Mb/s from the gigabit switch to teh extreme?



DD

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  • Reply 1 of 4
    benzenebenzene Posts: 338member
    Hooking up multiple cords from one component to the other isn't going to help you.



    Both your gigabit switch and the Airport Extreme router should operate in full-duplex mode, which means your effective bandwidth is 200Mb/s.



    I don't think you'll be able to stream true HD material real-time over a full-duplex gigabit line regardless.
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  • Reply 2 of 4
    kansukee hasegawakansukee hasegawa Posts: 12member
    Hooking up that many ports is not necessary.Any devices that are connected directly to the switch will benefit from the gigabit bandwidth as long as they are gigabit-enabled.This works because you are in effect bypassing the router.
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  • Reply 3 of 4
    dage007dage007 Posts: 320member
    yes but what I mean is that the devices connected to the gigabit switch will want to gain access to the usb2 which is connected to the airport express router which has a 10/100 not gigabit port to the gigabit switch. THis means that the gigabit computers will have gigabit up until the router and then they willbe down graded to 10/100 before they hit the usb2 storage device. Correct?
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    kansukee hasegawakansukee hasegawa Posts: 12member
    That's correct in that case.But if you want/need the extra performance,why not go with a non-Apple router that does have wireless-N AND Gigabit ports and will cost a bit less?Or if you want to use the Apple BS for some reason,why not use a NAS drive instead of USB and hook that up to the gigabit switch?
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