Home network configuration

[johnmcc123]

I am new to networking and I definitely need some help...

I am setting up a home network and I have a question about it.

My network:

Internet --> Cable Modem --> Netgear WNDR 3400 router --> 8 port gigabit switch --> connects to 2 5 port gigabit switches using cat5e ethernet cables

Each of the 2 switches has a pc connected to it.
Each pc has a pci 10/100/1000 nic with the latest drivers.


I connected a gigabit switch to my router because my router does not support gigabit speeds. Then I ran a cat5e cable to my living room and a cable to my bedroom. I connected both of those cables to the switch thats connected to my router.

I was hoping to get gigabit speeds between my 2 pcs. I thought the data being transferred between the 2 pcs would flow through the 3 switches and bypass the Netgear router. I was told the switch connected to the router would route the traffic from one pc to the switch connected to the second pc, therefore bypassing the router. I am getting about 25mbs throughput when transferring files between my 2 pcs. Seems kinda slow..


Am I correct in thinking that the data traffic between my 2 pcs will not go through the router? If I am correct then I need to start looking elsewhere to solve my speed issues...

 

[paulcheung]

When you said 25mbs transfere speed, do you mean 25 megabyte per second or 25 megabits per second. if is 25 mega bytes per second maybe it is limited by the storage media (hard drives) and not the network speed. just a thought.
Cheers.