I'm throwing a LAN party on Sunday and was looking for a cheap switch for everyone to plug into.
Will a "CISCO WS-C2950-24 24-Port, 10/100 Catalyst Switch" work?
A guy on craiglist is selling it for $20.
Thanks community!!!!
I'm throwing a LAN party on Sunday and was looking for a cheap switch for everyone to plug into.
Will a "CISCO WS-C2950-24 24-Port, 10/100 Catalyst Switch" work?
A guy on craiglist is selling it for $20.
Thanks community!!!!
It will, you know how to set up a switch though right? Not a simple as a hub.
Sadly I have no idea... :(
What would work best?
There is going to be about 12 of us in one room gaming.
Honestly wireless works the best, but if you have to be wired I would go with a hub. But hubs can be expensive.
I'll probably go on youtube and look up some videos on how to set one up.
Your probably gonna need a serial connection from your PC and putty to telnet/ssh into it. Getting it to work as a hub shouldn't been too difficult but I would definetnly advise a video.
Planning on putting the switch online?
Well it's actually just for a couple of xbox ones.
My fiance's little brother just needed a place for him and his buddies to play.
Save yourself some time and money and do it wirelessly. From what I understand the Xbox Ones freak out unless online.
What kind of router do you have? If you don't have AC you should really upgrade to AC.
I have a buffalo AirStation HighPower N600 gigabit dual band wireless router wzr-600dhp
You don't need a managed switch for that, just get a regular one. It will probably work fine out of the box though if it's been reset to default. An unmanaged switch doesn't require any configuration, just plug everything in and it will work.
and a wired connection will provide less latency and more bandwidth than wifi being split by 4 xboxs
I was looking around online at unmanaged switches, do they have auto detecting up-link ports or something? How else do you get them online?
black magic
I don't know how it works, I just know that it does
I'm just going to get an unmanaged one! Thanks everybody for the help.
A switch switches traffic between devices, it doesn't need to know what they are or what kind of traffic it is. You just plug everything in to it and it works. If you need to do something more complicated than that you need a managed switch or a router.
Weird, seems like just plugging something like that into a router would cause problems. In my experience automated networking is a myth, you have to babysit everything.
i thought switches usually work right out the box. hubs are pathetically slow and buggy in my experience.
I grabbed just a regular 100/1000 24 port switch a year back and its served well through many LAN parties. And it was as easy as having everyone plug in and commence gaming
managed or unmanaged doesn't really matter in the default state managed switches are unmanaged. Also a small word of wisdom throw in a router between the switch and the internet. This has 3 advantages. 1 you can manage the traffic of the internet a bit and 2 routers have DHCP so you just plug in a pc and it gives the PC an IP and subnet info so it becomes a plug and play thing. 3 most have wifi so you got that covered as well.
If you don't have internet access the router will still make setting up a LAN easier with it's DHCP. Well worth the sacrifice of 1 port.
+1
Hub on a LAN party will kill latency in fps games.
Switch works as it is, a 24/48-port 100 Mbps switch from enterprise surplus is the way to go, dirt cheap and reliable. 128 bit packet size is no issue for a switch, as long as your server and clients are up to it, it will hardly affect the latency at all. Advanced setup only comes into play when you're needing more client connections and have to uplink multiple switches and use multiple server NIC's.