| Quote from: nanotm |
yes I did mean 100Mb on the wan port and 1Gb on the lan side of the switch.... although some were described the other way round ....
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If you have a WAN and LAN, then you have two difference network addresses with routing, otherwise it is an uplink. I would be very surprised if the uplink was slower than the LAN as it defeats the object of a dedicated uplink.
Older devices have an uplink because they do not support automatic switching between MDI and MDI-X and the uplink is common with one of the LAN ports. Modern (consumer) devices with an uplink port tend to have a 10x uplink.
I get the impression yours is an oldish device which doesn't have the "store and forward" buffering that is needed for mis-matched speeds to run effectively.
Phil
Plusnet FTTC (Sep 2014), Essentials (Feb 2013); ADSL (Apr 2009); Customer since Jan 2004 (on 28kb dial-up)
Using a TP-Link Archer VR600 modem-router.
