Connecting a managed and unmanaged switch

[ddaenen1]

So i upgraded from 200Mbps to 1Gbps internet this week. Not fully functional yet as they need to come upgrade my modem to a DOCSIS3.1 model but in the mean time, i am very curious how my network setup will cope with it, especially my Mikrotik router and my Netgear switch.

I also have unmanaged switch (Totolink SC16 Gbps switch) that i am currently using as a lab/testing switch to try and set up configurations before adding anything to my network which i wanted to add to my network since i am slowly but steadily running out of ports on the Netgear. However, since this is an unmanaged switch, i cannot configure LACP to hook it up to the Netgear over 2 ports so i am wonder if this switch will be suitable in case i hook up multiple UTP connections to it that all are 1Gbps?

 

[thiggins]

You can just plug the unmanaged switch into one of the managed switch ports. Bandwidth between the switches will be limited to 1 Gbps in each direction.

Put your devices with lower bandwidth requirements on the unmanaged switch.

The issue is potential limiting of local transfers, since your internet bandwidth is limited to 1 Gbps.

 

[ddaenen1]

You can just plug the unmanaged switch into one of the managed switch ports. Bandwidth between the switches will be limited to 1 Gbps in each direction.

Put your devices with lower bandwidth requirements on the unmanaged switch.

The issue is potential limiting of local transfers, since your internet bandwidth is limited to 1 Gbps.

Thanks. This is the way i will do it for now. At one point i need to replace my main Netgear switch anyways because i am thinking of adding POE AP's and then i will use the Netgear as second switch and can i link both with LACP and the Totolink retires then.

 

[coxhaus]

If you want to use an unmanged switch with a network VLAN just add the unmanged switch to an access port in the VLAN and the whole unmanged switch and all ports will be in that 1 network VLAN. Think of expanding 1 port out to 24 ports less the connecting ports.