Managed switch questions

[doctormarcotte]

I have recently completed a home network with cat6 cable throughout (including patch cables), Motorola Surfboard SB6121, Cisco Linksys EA3500 Gibabit Router, and a Cisco SR2024T unmanaged 24 port gigabit switch (see photo). To this I have added a Synology DS1513+ NAS (not shown) which is connected to the switch with 4 cat6 cables. However, the unmanaged switch can't perform link aggregation. My question is: Would the Netgear GS108T managed 8 port gigabit switch do the job? What I would do is connect the router to the GS108T, use 4 of it's ports to connect to the NAS using link aggregation, and daisy chain the SR2024T to the GS108T. My network's primary purpose is for streaming videos from the NAS to various smart TV's simultaneously (thru WD TV Live media players). Being able to bond the 4 cables from the NAS would go a long way toward my goal. However, am I missing something? Since most of the network connections will go thru the SR2024T will those still benefit from the new switch? I appreciate any feedback.

 

[Dreamslacker]

I have recently completed a home network with cat6 cable throughout (including patch cables), Motorola Surfboard SB6121, Cisco Linksys EA3500 Gibabit Router, and a Cisco SR2024T unmanaged 24 port gigabit switch (see photo). To this I have added a Synology DS1513+ NAS (not shown) which is connected to the switch with 4 cat6 cables. However, the unmanaged switch can't perform link aggregation. My question is: Would the Netgear GS108T managed 8 port gigabit switch do the job? What I would do is connect the router to the GS108T, use 4 of it's ports to connect to the NAS using link aggregation, and daisy chain the SR2024T to the GS108T. My network's primary purpose is for streaming videos from the NAS to various smart TV's simultaneously (thru WD TV Live media players). Being able to bond the 4 cables from the NAS would go a long way toward my goal. However, am I missing something? Since most of the network connections will go thru the SR2024T will those still benefit from the new switch? I appreciate any feedback.
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No, it will not give you any benefits in the manner that you intend to hook it up.

Basically, you have:
NAS <--4GbE--> Netgear <--1GbE--> Linksys <--> Devices.

Your devices will still share the single GbE link to get to the NAS. You simply have better luck replacing the Linksys with a HP Procurve 1810-24G. It's a web-managed/ smart switch that supports LACP and it's fanless too.

That means that you can all your connected devices to the 1810-24G gets to share the pool of 4 x 1GbE LACP trunk to the NAS. The caveat being that each device can only use up to 1GbE from the NAS at a time due to the manner in which LACP works.