What else could you do to make your network more faster you have switches on your network but. Will one use routerrepeter or else to make it faster?

Answer 1

The short answer, to the best of my knowledge, is simply 'No.'

I'll assume you have a TCP/IP LAN set up in a home or office environment. Under these conditions, there are generally only two factors that determine your overall network speed:

• Computer hardware: are the computers involved in the data transfers capable of handling the potential speed of the network? The two most limiting factors here are probably the processor speed (anything over roughly 400MHz shouldn't have a problem) and hard drive read/write speeds (which is even less likely to be a problem).

• You'll see a bigger difference in data transfer speed when you compare the difference between 10-BASE-T, which supports speeds up to 10 megabits per second, and 100-BASE-T, which supports speeds up to 100 megabits per second. If you feel that your files could be moving along faster, the first thing I, personally, would look at, is if you're running your Ethernet cards and your switch at 10-BASE-T or 100-BASE-T. Most 100-BASE-T Ethernet cards are backwards compatible with 10-BASE-T network implemination and are able to automatically detect the appropriate implamentation to use.

If, however, you're concerned about network speed because you're playing a multiplayer game over a LAN, any lag in the game could very well be hardware related, as stated above.