Customer has a Peer-Peer network consisting of 2 Workstations, NAS, router, 2 switches, two mono printers and a large color MFP. One of the workstations is located in an office together with the NAS, router one switch and one mono printer. The other workstation with the 2nd mono printer as well as the large color MFP and the 2nd switch are located in another building. There is one CAT-6 cable running between the two buildings from switch to switch. No way, never, ever, to have physically more wiring/cables between the two locations cause they are on the opposite sides of a busy road. All network traffic must run through that single CAT-6 which is coincidentally available but cannot be extended. All nodes in the network are of the Gigabit type.
Customer want to extend the network with a 3th workstation located in again another building near the 2nd one. There is a possibility to run a CAT-6 cable between the 2nd building with the 2nd switch to allow the 3rd location to hook up the 3th workstation with switch and monoprinter. Traffic is relatively low between all nodes. They are mainly doing a few prints and scans per our between the workstations and NAS, the workstations all will have to have good Internet access through the router in the main office and during the night the workstations are being backed up to the NAS also in the main office.
Question: Is there a great deterioration in speed or otherwise to expect in the network with all those switches in a row? Especially Internet access is an issue. Printing and scanning a lot less.
The reason I am asking is that I see often in offices several huge armthick bundles of orange CAT-6 cables running around. Giving me the feeling that it is a must for a good, fast network. Would this network, as described here in the attached drawing, have any disadvantages with all those bottleneck switches?
Thanks!
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Customer want to extend the network with a 3th workstation located in again another building near the 2nd one. There is a possibility to run a CAT-6 cable between the 2nd building with the 2nd switch to allow the 3rd location to hook up the 3th workstation with switch and monoprinter. Traffic is relatively low between all nodes. They are mainly doing a few prints and scans per our between the workstations and NAS, the workstations all will have to have good Internet access through the router in the main office and during the night the workstations are being backed up to the NAS also in the main office.
Question: Is there a great deterioration in speed or otherwise to expect in the network with all those switches in a row? Especially Internet access is an issue. Printing and scanning a lot less.
The reason I am asking is that I see often in offices several huge armthick bundles of orange CAT-6 cables running around. Giving me the feeling that it is a must for a good, fast network. Would this network, as described here in the attached drawing, have any disadvantages with all those bottleneck switches?
Thanks!
HansUnbenannt2.jpg
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