Scott P Posted February 12, 2013 Posted February 12, 2013 I have a drop run to my home theater center and have a few different components that take a network connection. This will be used for media streaming only (Netflix/Amazon/MLB.tv/etc) and possibly connecting to a media server. The wire is Cat 5e and the switches in between are all gigabit units. Does it matter which switch I find or use? I found a Netgear 5 port model optimized for home theater for $28 at Newegg. Is there really a difference as long as it is Gigabit? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wevsspot Posted February 12, 2013 Posted February 12, 2013 That Netgear 5 would be perfect. If you needed to save a little money you could even use the TP-Link TL-SG1005D. The only thing you lose is color coded ports and QOS. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stonerboy779 Posted February 12, 2013 Posted February 12, 2013 That Netgear 5 would be perfect. If you needed to save a little money you could even use the TP-Link TL-SG1005D. The only thing you lose is color coded ports and QOS. Got this exact TP-Link switch last night haha Its fantastic I took it out of its packaging plugged it in and in a few seconds I had 20ms ping 100 down and 1 up. It sorted itself our and required no further setting up. I bought it for home theater use so that the one cat6 run could be used for both the xbox360 streaming movies via WMC and Media browser from the home network and so that the fetchTV could remain connected to the net. 5 port gigabit switch, no setup or maintenance and it sorts itself out in seconds and runs rock solid as I streamed a bunch of movies after that and after updating the Xbox after the longest time of having it disconnected from the net haha Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott P Posted February 13, 2013 Posted February 13, 2013 Good to know I wasn't far off. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waco Posted February 13, 2013 Posted February 13, 2013 Switches are pretty hard to go wrong with (in the unmanaged world). Even dirt-cheap offbrand switches tend to be fast and trouble-feee. Personally I have a bunch of D-Link Green Gigabit switches for my home network. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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