Lefty_Insider  Freshman Member

As I wrote earlier, I believe that replacing my router with one that has 2.5 or better LAN ports will compensate for the inadequacies of your switch, while maintaining the desired speeds across my network. thanks for all your help. Mike

Direct connection between two PC's is not a real world scenario for me, so I don't care. No, the issue has not yet been resolved. I still believe that your switch is the problem. My router can get a WAN IP from the modem, unless your switch, and only your switch, is in between.

That device is a Win10 Surface tablet with a USB C to 2.5 Ethernet adapter, that I can move around from place to place. Testing was switch to switch, no router involved. Further testing of additional machines revealed the better results attached.

Seems like I can't get anything close to 2.5 Gbps through these switches anyway.

Seems that you are both right, but would need too setup Performance Test on a machine on the other side of the modem to verify.

Except that the only computer connected to the 1G router LAN port is the local machine and yes, and that one has a 1G nic.

Don't want, have space for, or need 12 ports, but yes $200-$350 new. Or I could just skip this whole 2.5G stopgap half measure and go straight to 10G. :-) The 10G ports are WAN or LAN. i can always buy 10G NIC's. TDS is advertising 8Gbps symmetrical near me, but not yet here.

2.5G from the WAN modem to the 2.5G switch. 2.5G from the switch to the 2.5G router WAN port. 2.5G from the switch to another 2.5G switch, to 2.5G clients. Don't see what you are talking about and neither does my computer. See attached .

"2.5G Internal Connections: You aim for local devices to connect at 2.5G within your internal network." This setup does not fully satisfy this requirement. So if I upgrade my ISP connection to 2 Gbps, I will be only able to achieve 1 Gbps from the LAN port of the router with your proposed setup. The reality is that this…

That would be the same a plugging the modem directly to the router and eliminating the switch all together. See attached.

So the cables now go from modem WAN port to the switch port 1 and from switch port 2 to router WAN port. Where would the coupler go? I hate to seem dense but I don't get what you are suggesting.

ME: Is the Hitron EN2251-RES 2.5 Gbps modem also a router? CHATGPT: The Hitron EN2251-RES is a cable modem designed to support high-speed internet connections up to 2.5 Gbps. However, it does not function as a router on its own. Typically, you would connect the Hitron modem to a separate router or gateway device to…

You or I are a bit confused here. I do not have a Hitron CGNv4 modem/router. I have a ISP supplied Hitron EN251 2.5 Gbps modem. I have no login credentials for it. The router was performing NAT and DHCP functions prior to me including your switch in the network.

Zyxel, So I captured the router error I get when the router tries to get a WAN IP through your switch. I am also showing, error 2, what happens when I try to set the router to a static IP the same as what the ISP assigned to me dynamically. I clicked the Use Static button to see what it was giving me. So that is where the…

I am in the US. https://www.newegg.com/p/0XP-0009-003S0