[TriLUG] Improvements for my church's network

[James Jones via TriLUG]

As Steven points out -- Geek points might be the only award for me.

So far there is no problem other than my lack of knowledge plus
wanting to get the most out of my investment in a smart switch.

I had plan to use vlan so that computers dealing with phones & video
will have better of use of the network. But there again, my knowledge
is limited and some general howto's on switch usage would be most
helpful.

I found some tutorials but they seem to use examples of netgear or
cisco and not linksys and to some degree terms are not the same.

Thanks for the comments. Any  more?

jcj



On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 7:08 PM, Steven Tardy <sjt5atra at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Apr 19, 2017, at 5:55 PM, James Jones via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org> wrote:
>>
>> So link aggregation has no use for a single pipe user?
>
> Aside from geek-factor and nerd-points, not much IMO.
>
> Proposed Topology:
>   Streaming PC
>   | | multiple wires
>   Switch
>   | single wire
>   ISP router
>
> As some who troubleshoots "slow performance" at $dayjob, K.I.S.S. Having multiple wires from the streaming PC to that switch won't make an appreciable difference on single TCP flow (video streaming) performance.
>
> Tweaking OS/application to "open-up" the TCP window size or QoS preventing other things from getting-in-the-way/buffering would do more than NIC teaming.
>
> Also most think QoS means "make things go faster", but in fact all QoS can do is make other things go slower.
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> Let me know if you have additional questions.



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