I have just finished upgrading my backbone networking infrastructure to 1 GB on both of my networks that I use here at home. This means that I can copy critical data between my various internal systems and speed up my backups over the LAN.
This will help when I upgrade a hard drive on one system for instance and I don’t have the physical space to throw another drive on my SCSI bus whether it’s because of not enough connectors on my cable or space in the case or heat concerns. Now that I have the 1 GB backbone just copying data over the network will be 10 times faster!
I have even noticed a little speed increase over the WAN! This was unexpected.
I really like Linksys so it was hard to move off of a vendor that seems to really have quality products. This was especially difficult since my first experiences with D-Link were not positive at all.
Previously with D-Link I had an issue with seeing my website locally without having to type in my local ip.address or my WAN ip.address:80 (pointing to port 80). Called them up and saw others have the issue on forums and they said it was my issue even though the same config worked with no issues on Linksys. I did not hesitate to take the router back after updating the firmware and every combination I could to get it to work. Actually I still have a Linksys 1 Gb switch.
This time that issue didn’t rear its head. I will tell you this though, if not for the fact that they had the 1GB ports LAN ports I wouldn’t have looked at the router. Also the fact that Linksys or other vendors didn’t have this on their road map without getting into a different class of router costing 4 or 5 times more is another reason I bought this. This router was also on sale and with the in store rebate and the mail in rebate it cut the price in half as well.
Time will tell how this works out but so far so good and really fast!
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