Ethernet Switch Question

[chaoman]

Quick question.

If I use an ethernet switch in my room and attach an ethernet cord to the switch, then attach a cord to my desktop and an antminer s5, will my internet connection with my desktop slow down? I don't think it matters if it is a gigabyte switch or not seeing how only 100mbs per second reaches the switch. Thank you.

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[psycodad]

If your internet uplink is not in the 100Mbps range or faster the speed of your switch doesn't matter for that. Bottleneck more probably is your Internet connection.

[chaoman]

Okay, but will my computer have slower access to the internet if the miner is hashing?

[psycodad]

Okay, but will my computer have slower access to the internet if the miner is hashing?

Correctly and theoretically answered: Yes. But since the bandwidth used by your miner is so small and you hopefully have more than an analog modem connection to the internet it won't probably be noticeable what your miner uses.

[Dalkore]

Quick question.

If I use an ethernet switch in my room and attach an ethernet cord to the switch, then attach a cord to my desktop and an antminer s5, will my internet connection with my desktop slow down? I don't think it matters if it is a gigabyte switch or not seeing how only 100mbs per second reaches the switch. Thank you.

You should see little difference.  The only thing I could say is if its a cheap combo router from your ISP, it could have overheating problems that may freeze up you wifi is its built in.   In that situation I would disable the wifi, get a standalone wireless modem and run just the switch on the router.  The best would be to not use the router at all for switching and get a 8 or 16 port switch and use that for your network and the router just for serving up your connection. 

[GigaBit]

I had to change my Cisco switch last year because it couldn't feed enough juice to my miners; it was jsut a 10/100 though.
Make sure you get a 10/100/1000 switch and router if needed.
I got a Rosewill 24 port unmanaged 10/100/1000 for around $100 and I love that bad boy.
I also use a 10/100/1000 trendnet router.

No need to spend top dollars for a switch, Rosewill is relatively cheap and quite tough.