mountainsoft
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I recently set up an old laptop as a basic NAS so my wife and I could share files easily. Everything seems to work well and it backs up nightly to an external hard drive.
However, my current network is all 1Gbs, routers, switches, etc. That's fine for most things, but it is a little slow for transferring large files (i.e. videos) between computers.
Is it possible to connect the NAS and two computers with a new 2.5Gbps switch for faster transfer between these devices, while the rest of the network still runs at 1Gbps? Or does the entire network have to be upgraded to 2.5Gbps to realize speed gains for just those three devices?
However, my current network is all 1Gbs, routers, switches, etc. That's fine for most things, but it is a little slow for transferring large files (i.e. videos) between computers.
Is it possible to connect the NAS and two computers with a new 2.5Gbps switch for faster transfer between these devices, while the rest of the network still runs at 1Gbps? Or does the entire network have to be upgraded to 2.5Gbps to realize speed gains for just those three devices?